Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 8

How is you stannin' it?"

Who acts: you · What happens: stannin · To what, where: sorter

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stannin	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stannin	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stannin	nsubj
4	stannin	stannin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 it	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stannin	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stannin	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stannin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stannin	present · progressive	you	sorter					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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