Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 10

Bimeby, one day wiles he wuz gwine 'long de road, old Brer Wolf come up wid 'im.

Who acts: Bimeby, old Brer · What happens: wile, gwine, come up · To what, where: im

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, old Brer), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wiles	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bimeby	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiles	nsubj
5	wiles	wile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gwine	nsubj
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gwine	compound
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiles	obj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 road	punct
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 road	amod
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 road	compound
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gwine	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Brer	punct
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Brer	amod
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	flat
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 road	acl:relcl
18	up	up	ADV	_	19 wid	advmod
19	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 come	xcomp
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 wid	punct
21	im	im	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wiles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wile	present	Bimeby			tree rules
2	gwine		Bimeby			tree rules
3	come up	present	old Brer	im	wid property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme

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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