Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 91

Den it's rise up, Primus! en gin it turn strong; De cow's gwine home wid der ding-dang-dong-- Sling in anudder tetch er de ole-time song: Good-night, Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Don't stay long!

Who acts: you, sun, De cow, Whipperwill · What happens: den, rise up, turn, wid, not stay · To what, where: Primus en gin, Good night

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 (you, sun, De cow, Whipperwill), 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	Den	den	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	1 Den	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rise	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gin	punct
7	Primus	Primus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gin	compound
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Primus	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gin	compound
10	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turn	nsubj
12	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	10 gin	acl:relcl
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 turn	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wid	punct
15	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cow	compound
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wid	nsubj
17	's	's	PART	_	16 cow	case
18	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wid	amod
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wid	compound
20	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl
21	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 dong	amod
22	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dong	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ding	punct
24	dang	dang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dong	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 dang	punct
26	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wid	appos
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 Sling	punct
28	Sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dong	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 er	case
30	anudder	anudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	compound
31	tetch	tetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	compound
32	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Sling	nmod
33	de	de	ADP	_	37 song	case
34	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ole	punct
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 song	compound
37	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	nmod
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 night	punct
39	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 night	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Good	punct
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 stay	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Whipperwill	punct
43	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Whipperwill	nmod:desc
44	Whipperwill	Whipperwill	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 stay	nsubj
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 Whipperwill	punct
46	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 stay	aux
47	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 stay	advmod
48	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 night	acl:relcl
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 stay	xcomp
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 night	punct
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 Whipperwill	punct
52	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Whipperwill	nmod:desc
53	Whipperwill	Whipperwill	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 stay	nsubj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 Whipperwill	punct
55	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 stay	aux
56	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 stay	advmod
57	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dong	parataxis
58	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 stay	xcomp
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 dong	punct
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	63 stay	punct
61	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 stay	aux
62	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 stay	advmod
63	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wid	conj
64	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 stay	xcomp
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	den	imperative	you not said here	Primus en gin			tree rules
2	rise up	present	sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	sun	Primus en gin not said here		strong property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gin=Theme
4	wid		De cow				tree rules
5	not stay	present · do-support	Whipperwill Mr.	Good night not said here		long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme night=Location
6	not stay	present · do-support	Whipperwill Mr.		night	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not stay	do-support	De cow not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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