Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, sentence 3

Hit's good ter be dere, en it's sweet ter be dere, Wid de sisterin' all aroun' you-- A shakin' dem shackles er mussy en' love Wharwid de Lord is boun' you.

Who acts: sisterin · What happens: be, shake, bind · To what, where: shackles, Lord

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. the Big Bethel Church. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisterin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1790): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 good	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	ter	ter	PART	_	6 dere	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dere	cop
6	dere	dere	ADV	_	3 good	csubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweet	punct
8	en	en	CCONJ	_	11 sweet	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sweet	expl
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sweet	cop
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 good	conj
12	ter	ter	PART	_	14 dere	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 dere	cop
14	dere	dere	ADV	_	11 sweet	csubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sisterin	punct
16	Wid	wid	ADP	_	18 sisterin	case
17	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sisterin	det
18	sisterin	sisterin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dere	obl
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 sisterin	punct
20	all	all	ADV	_	23 you	advmod
21	aroun	aroun	ADP	_	23 you	case
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 aroun	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sisterin	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 shakin	punct
25	A	a	ADP	_	26 shakin	mark
26	shakin	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sisterin	acl
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 shakin	punct
28	dem	dem	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 shackles	det
29	shackles	shackle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shakin	obj
30	er	er	ADP	_	31 mussy	case
31	mussy	mussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shackles	nmod
32	en	en	CCONJ	_	34 love	cc
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 en	punct
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mussy	conj
35	Wharwid	wharwid	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 boun	advmod
36	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Lord	det
37	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 boun	nsubj:pass
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 boun	aux:pass
39	boun	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 shackles	acl:relcl
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 boun	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 boun	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			good property	tree rules
2	is	infinitive			dere property	tree rules
3	is	present			sweet property	tree rules
4	is	infinitive			wid de sisterin aroun you; dere property	tree rules
5	shake	gerund	de sisterin aroun you not said here	dem shackles	er mussy en love	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shackle=Patient
6	bind	present · passive		de Lord	wharwid property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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