Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 87
En it's rise up, Primus! fetch anudder yell: Dat ole dun cow's des a shakin' up 'er bell, En de frogs chunin' up 'fo' de jew done fell: Good-night, Mr. Killdee!
Who acts: En, shakin · What happens: rise up, do, fall · To what, where: Primus, de jew, des
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, shakin), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rise | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rise | aux |
| 4 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rise | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Primus | punct |
| 7 | Primus | Primus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rise | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 yell | punct |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yell | compound |
| 10 | anudder | anudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yell | compound |
| 11 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rise | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 des | punct |
| 13 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 14 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cow | amod |
| 15 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cow | compound |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 des | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 cow | case |
| 18 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fell | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shakin | det |
| 20 | shakin | shakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 up | punct |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 shakin | advmod |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 up | punct |
| 24 | er | er | PART | _ | 30 chunin | mark |
| 25 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 frogs | compound |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 En | punct |
| 27 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bell | appos |
| 28 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 En | flat |
| 29 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 chunin | compound |
| 30 | chunin | chunin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shakin | conj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 chunin | punct |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 chunin | compound |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 chunin | punct |
| 34 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 37 jew | case |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 jew | punct |
| 36 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 jew | amod |
| 37 | jew | jew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chunin | nmod |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 jew | acl |
| 39 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 yell | acl:relcl |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 night | punct |
| 41 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 night | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Good | punct |
| 43 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rise | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Killdee | punct |
| 45 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Killdee | nmod:desc |
| 46 | Killdee | Killdee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 night | appos |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | present | En | Primus | night | fetch anudder yell obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | do | participle | de jew not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | a shakin and frogs chunin for de jew | that ole dun cow's des | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient yell=Result |
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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