Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 99

Yaller gal fine; She may be yone but she oughter be mine!

Who acts: gal, yone · What happens: be · To what, where: yone, mine

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 (gal, yone), 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	Yaller	yall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 gal	amod
2	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 yone	punct
5	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 yone	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 yone	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 yone	cop
8	yone	yone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mine	nsubj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 oughter	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 oughter	compound
11	oughter	oughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yone	conj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 mine	cop
13	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fine	parataxis
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	gal	yone but she oughter					tree rules
2	is a	infinitive	yone but she oughter	mine					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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