Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 23

"How long is you bin in de chu'ch, son?"

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: de chu'ch

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 bin	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bin	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bin	nsubj
6	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chu'ch	case
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 chu'ch	compound
9	chu'ch	chu'ch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chu'ch	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you			de chu'ch and son		bin, long property	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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