Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 7

Some say dat jedgment day ain't fur off, an' de folks is flockin' 'roun' de house a hollerin' an' a- shoutin' des like dey wuz in er revival.

Who acts: Some, de folks · What happens: say off, flockin · To what, where: ai fur, roun de house

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, de folks), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
4	jedgment	jedgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
6	ai	ai	X	Foreign=Yes	8 fur	compound
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fur	advmod
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	2 say	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flockin	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 folks	det
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 folks	punct
13	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 folks	compound
14	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flockin	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 flockin	aux
16	flockin	flockin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 say	advcl
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 roun	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 roun	punct
19	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	compound
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 roun	punct
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 house	compound
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flockin	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hollerin	det
24	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flockin	obj
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 des	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 des	det
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 shoutin	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shoutin	det
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 a	punct
30	shoutin	shoutin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 des	compound
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 shoutin	punct
32	des	de	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hollerin	conj
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 wuz	case
34	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wuz	compound
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 des	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 revival	case
37	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 revival	amod
38	revival	revival	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wuz	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say off speech: assert	present	Some	ai fur			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fur=Topic
2	flockin	present · progressive	a de folks	roun de house					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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