Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 21
Dey talk, en dey sing, en dey play on de peanner, de gals did, twel bimeby hit come time fer Brer Rabbit fer to be gwine, en he tell um all good-by, en strut out to de hoss-rack same's ef he wuz de king er de patter- rollers,*1 en den he mount Brer Fox en ride off.
Who acts: Dey talk, twel bimeby, bimeby, rack same ef, den, en den · What happens: do, hit, be, tell, de, er · To what, where: fer Rabbit fer, gwine, um, Brer Fox en · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey talk, twel bimeby, bimeby, rack same ef), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | compound |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 en | punct |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | conj |
| 5 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | compound |
| 6 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 en | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dey | compound |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | compound |
| 10 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 peanner | case |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 peanner | compound |
| 13 | peanner | peanner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gals | punct |
| 15 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gals | compound |
| 16 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hit | punct |
| 19 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bimeby | compound |
| 20 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | nsubj |
| 21 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 did | conj |
| 22 | come | come | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fer | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fer | compound |
| 24 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fer | compound |
| 25 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rabbit | compound |
| 26 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fer | compound |
| 27 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 gwine | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 gwine | cop |
| 30 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 en | punct |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gwine | conj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 32 en | acl:relcl |
| 35 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tell | obj |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 good | advmod |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 um | amod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 good | punct |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 strut | case |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 strut | punct |
| 41 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 strut | compound |
| 42 | strut | strut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | obl |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 hit | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 de | mark |
| 45 | de | de | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hit | advcl |
| 46 | hoss | hoss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rack | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 hoss | punct |
| 48 | rack | rack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 ef | compound |
| 49 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 ef | amod |
| 50 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 49 same | case |
| 51 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 er | nsubj |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 er | nsubj |
| 53 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 er | nsubj |
| 54 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 er | amod |
| 55 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 er | compound |
| 56 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 de | ccomp |
| 57 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 56 er | conj |
| 58 | patter | patter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 rollers | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 patter | punct |
| 60 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 de | obj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 den | punct |
| 62 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 65 den | punct |
| 63 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 64 en | nummod |
| 64 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 den | compound |
| 65 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 ride | nsubj |
| 66 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 67 mount | nsubj |
| 67 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 den | acl:relcl |
| 68 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 en | compound |
| 69 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 en | compound |
| 70 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 mount | obj |
| 71 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 er | conj |
| 72 | off | off | ADP | _ | 71 ride | compound:prt |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dey talk and en and dey sing and dey play on de peanner | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hit | past | twel bimeby | fer Rabbit fer | by en strut; out property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fer=Theme by strut=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | twel bimeby not said here | gwine and en | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | bimeby | um | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | de | to-infinitive | twel bimeby not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | er | rack same ef | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | mount | past | den | Brer Fox en | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Patient | ||||
| 8 | ride off | present | en den | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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