Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 94

Black gal sweet, Same like goodies w'at de w'ite folks eat; Ho my Riley! don't you take'n tell 'er name, En den ef sumpin' happen you won't ketch de blame; Hi my rinktum! better take'n hide yo' plum; Joree don't holler eve'y time he fine a wum.

Who acts: w'ite folks, Ho Riley, you, rinktum, Joree, de · What happens: eat, do, tell, happen, not ketch, hide · To what, where: goodies w'at, you, er name, blame, Black gal, wum · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (w'ite folks, Ho Riley, you, rinktum), 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	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gal	amod
2	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hide	obl
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gal	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Same	punct
5	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gal	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 w'at	case
7	goodies	goodie	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 w'at	compound
8	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Same	obl
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 w'at	flat:foreign
10	w'ite	w'ite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 folks	amod
11	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 w'at	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Riley	punct
14	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Riley	compound
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Riley	nmod:poss
16	Riley	Riley	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gal	appos
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Riley	punct
18	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Riley	acl:relcl
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 you	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	obl
21	take'n	take'n	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 you	conj
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
24	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 name	compound
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sumpin	punct
27	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ef	compound
28	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ef	compound
29	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sumpin	compound
30	sumpin	sumpin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 name	appos
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 sumpin	punct
32	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	ccomp
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 ketch	nsubj
34	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 ketch	aux
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 ketch	advmod
36	ketch	ketch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 happen	ccomp
37	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 blame	nmod:poss
38	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ketch	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 rinktum	punct
40	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	42 rinktum	discourse
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 rinktum	nmod:poss
42	rinktum	rinktum	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hide	nsubj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 rinktum	punct
44	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 take'n	amod
45	take'n	take'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rinktum	conj
46	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
47	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 plum	compound
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 yo	punct
49	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hide	obj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 holler	punct
51	Joree	Joree	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 holler	nsubj
52	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 holler	aux
53	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 holler	advmod
54	holler	holler	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 hide	conj
55	eve'y	eve'y	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 time	amod
56	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 holler	obl:unmarked
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 fine	nsubj
58	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 time	acl:relcl
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 wum	det
60	wum	wum	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 fine	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	present	w'ite folks	goodies w'at not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Patient
2	do	present	my Ho Riley not said here	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	my Ho Riley not said here	er name		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent name=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	infinitive				tree rules
5	not ketch	future	you	de's blame		tree rules
6	hide	present	my rinktum and better take'n	Black gal		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient
7	not holler speech: other	present · do-support	Joree		time	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fine	past	rinktum	a wum		vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wum=Recipient
9	blame		de			nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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