Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, sentence 5

Hit's good ter be dere w'en de sinners all jine Wid de brudderin in dere singin', En it look like Gaberl gwine ter rack up en blow En set dem heav'm bells ter ringin'!

Who acts: good ter, ter, dere w'en de sinners, en blow · What happens: w'en, be, look, rack up, set · To what, where: dere w'en de sinners, heav bells

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 (good ter, ter, dere w'en de sinners, en blow), 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	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ter	amod
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinners	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sinners	cop
6	dere	dere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sinners	amod
7	w'en	w'en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sinners	amod
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinners	compound
9	sinners	sinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rack	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 brudderin	det
11	jine	jine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Wid	nmod:desc
12	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 brudderin	compound
13	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wid	flat
14	brudderin	brudderin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 En	nmod:desc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 singin	case
16	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 singin	compound
17	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brudderin	conj
18	',	',	PART	_	17 singin	dep
19	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sinners	nmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 look	nsubj
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	9 sinners	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 ter	case
23	Gaberl	Gaberl	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ter	compound
24	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ter	compound
25	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
26	rack	rack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 rack	compound:prt
28	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blow	amod
29	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	nsubj
30	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 blow	appos
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rack	parataxis
32	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heav	compound
33	heav	heav	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bells	compound
34	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 bells	cop
35	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 set	obj
36	ter	ter	ADP	_	37 ringin	case
37	ringin	ringin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 ringin	punct
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 rack	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	w'en	participle				tree rules
2	is a	infinitive	Hit's good ter	dere w'en de sinners	En all Wid brudderin and dere singin nmod	tree rules
3	look	present	ter	dere w'en de sinners not said here	like Gaberl gwine ter	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sinner=Attribute
4	rack up	present	dere w'en de sinners			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	set	past	en blow		ter ringin	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a	present		heav bells		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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