Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 11
Dey better be home pickin' up chips.
Who acts: Dey · What happens: be · To what, where: better pickin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pickin | nsubj |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 pickin | amod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pickin | cop |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 pickin | advmod |
| 5 | pickin | pickin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pickin | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 chips | case |
| 8 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pickin | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pickin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | Dey | better pickin | up chips; home 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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