Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 96
Don't git no udder man; En it's ho my Riley!
Who acts: you, En · What happens: not git, be · To what, where: udder man, ho
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, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 git | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 git | advmod |
| 3 | git | git | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 5 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 git | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ho | punct |
| 8 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ho | nsubj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ho | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ho | cop |
| 11 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 git | obl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Riley | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Riley | Riley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ho | appos |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 git | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not git | imperative · do-support | you not said here | no udder man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | En | ho | 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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