Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 3

Dey er rackin' up, mon, deze yer cullud fokes is."

Who acts: Dey er rackin · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey er rackin), 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rackin	compound
2	er	er	X	_	3 rackin	compound
3	rackin	rackin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 rackin	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 rackin	compound
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mon	punct
7	mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rackin	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deze	punct
9	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
10	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 fokes	amod
11	cullud	cullud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fokes	compound
12	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deze	conj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	Dey er rackin and mon						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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