Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 27
"Bimeby Brer Fox stick his head in de do', en holler out:
What happens: stick out · To what, where: Bimeby, de
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 Bimeby | punct |
| 2 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obl |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | flat |
| 4 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | flat |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 de | case |
| 9 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obl |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ', | aux |
| 11 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 13 holler | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holler | compound |
| 13 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stick | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out in a quote | present | Bimeby | de | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in de=Destination |
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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