Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 77
Git up'n shout loud! let de w'ite folks year you singin'!
Who acts: Git up'n, de, you · What happens: shout, let, w'ite, singin · To what, where: de, folks
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 up'n, de, you), 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 | 2 up'n | compound |
| 2 | up'n | up'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shout | nsubj |
| 3 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shout | xcomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 shout | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shout | conj |
| 7 | de | de | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | w'ite | w'ite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 w'ite | obj |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 singin | compound |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 singin | nsubj |
| 12 | singin | singin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 w'ite | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 singin | punct |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | infinitive | Git up'n | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Git up'n not said here | de | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | w'ite | infinitive | de not said here | folks | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | singin | you | tree rules |
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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