Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 71
Fo' de boss come aroun' a dangin' en a dingin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: boss · What happens: come · To what, where: aroun
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 come | mark |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 3 | de | de | PART | _ | 4 boss | mark |
| 4 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | aroun | aroun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 aroun | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dangin | det |
| 9 | dangin | dangin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 dangin | case |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dingin | det |
| 13 | dingin | dingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 dingin | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 17 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 5 come | discourse |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 Hey | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | boss | aroun | a dangin's en obl; a dingin obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aroun=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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