Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 27
Hit ain't no use fer ter sing out chu'ch ter me, Brer Rastus.
Who acts: you, fer ter · What happens: hit, not use, sing out, ter · To what, where: ai, me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fer ter), 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 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 use | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hit | conj |
| 6 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ter | compound |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sing | nsubj |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sing | compound:prt |
| 10 | chu'ch | chu'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sing | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ter | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Brer | punct |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 15 | Rastus | Rastus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | ai | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent ai=Patient brer=Result | ||||
| 2 | not use | infinitive | you not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sing out speech: express | present | fer ter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ter | infinitive | fer ter not said here | me | 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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