Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 74
Git up en move aroun'! set dem big han's ter swingin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: Git en · What happens: move · 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 (Git en), 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 | Git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 en | compound |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Git | compound:prt |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | nsubj |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | aroun | aroun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 aroun | punct |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 dem | punct |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dem | compound |
| 9 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obl |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 han | amod |
| 11 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swingin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 han | case |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swingin | compound |
| 14 | swingin | swingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dem | appos |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 swingin | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hey | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hey | punct |
| 18 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 4 move | discourse |
| 19 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 Hey | discourse |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | Git en | aroun | set dem obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 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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