Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 1
DE ole bee make de honey-comb, De young bee make de honey, De niggers make de cotton en co'n, En de w'ite folks gits de money.
Who acts: ole bee, De young bee, De niggers, de en co'n, gits · What happens: make, folk, de · To what, where: de honey comb, de honey, money
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ole bee, De young bee, De niggers, de en co'n), 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 | DE | DE | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 bee | advmod |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bee | amod |
| 3 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 comb | compound |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comb | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 honey | punct |
| 8 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bee | compound |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bee | amod |
| 12 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 honey | compound |
| 15 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 niggers | compound |
| 18 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 co'n | compound |
| 21 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 en | compound |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 co'n | compound |
| 23 | co'n | co'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 folks | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 En | punct |
| 25 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 co'n | appos |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 En | flat:foreign |
| 27 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 folks | compound |
| 28 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 29 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 de | nsubj |
| 30 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 folks | acl:relcl |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 de | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | ole bee | de honey comb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | present | De young bee | de honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | present | De niggers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | folk | de en co'n | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | de | present | gits | money | 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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