Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, sentence 4

Hit's sweet ter be dere en lissen ter de hymns, En hear dem mo'ners a shoutin'-- Dey done reach de place whar der ain't no room Fer enny mo' weepin' en doubtin'.

Who acts: sweet ter, En, Fer mo · What happens: be, hear, do, doubtin · To what, where: dem mo'ners, room

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 (sweet ter, En, Fer mo), 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	Hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ter	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hit	case
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ter	amod
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dere	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dere	cop
6	dere	dere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	en	en	X	Foreign=Yes	6 dere	dep
8	lissen	lissen	X	Foreign=Yes	7 en	flat:foreign
9	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	7 en	flat:foreign
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 en	flat:foreign
11	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 en	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hear	punct
13	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hear	nsubj
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dere	conj
15	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mo'ners	compound
16	mo'ners	mo'ner	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hear	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shoutin	det
18	shoutin	shoutin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mo'ners	nmod:unmarked
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 shoutin	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 reach	punct
21	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 reach	compound
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 reach	amod
23	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoutin	conj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 whar	compound
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whar	compound
26	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reach	appos
27	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 ai	amod
28	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whar	conj
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 room	advmod
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ai	nmod
32	Fer	Fer	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 mo	compound
33	enny	enny	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Fer	flat
34	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 doubtin	nsubj
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 weepin	punct
36	weepin	weepin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 doubtin	compound
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 weepin	punct
38	en	en	X	Foreign=Yes	39 doubtin	compound
39	doubtin	doubtin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 room	acl:relcl
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 doubtin	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dere	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	Hit's sweet ter		dere property	tree rules
2	hear	infinitive	En	dem mo'ners a shoutin and Dey done reach		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mo'ner=Stimulus
3	do	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	doubtin		Fer mo	no room not said here		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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