Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 80
En she'll ketch up wid dus 'fo' we ever git dis corn in.
Who acts: En · What happens: ketch up · To what, where: wid dus
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 (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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ketch | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ketch | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ketch | aux |
| 4 | ketch | ketch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ketch | compound:prt |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dus | amod |
| 7 | dus | dus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ketch | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dus | punct |
| 9 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 corn | case |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 corn | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 corn | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 dis | advmod |
| 13 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dis | compound |
| 14 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | compound |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ketch | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 ketch | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ketch up | future | En | wid dus | for dis corn | 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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