Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 12
Hit's mighty good fer ter kyar' 'roun' wid you in de day time an' likewise in de night time.
Who acts: mighty good fer · What happens: wi · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty good fer), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fer | amod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fer | amod |
| 5 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wid | nsubj |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 7 kyar | case |
| 7 | kyar | kyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fer | nmod |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 10 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kyar | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 roun | punct |
| 12 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 wid | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wid | obl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 likewise | det |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 likewise | punct |
| 20 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 17 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 time | compound |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 likewise | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi | past | Hit's mighty good fer ter kyar | you | time | 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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