Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 30
Bimeby Brer Fox drag Brer Tarrypin off little ways b'low de spring-'ouse, en souze him under de water.
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. 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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drag | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bimeby | flat |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drag | compound |
| 4 | drag | drag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brer | flat |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 ways | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ways | amod |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Brer | nmod |
| 10 | b'low | b'low | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ways | appos |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ouse | amod |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ouse | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spring | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ouse | punct |
| 15 | ouse | ouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 b'low | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 souze | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 souze | compound |
| 18 | souze | souze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ouse | appos |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 souze | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 water | compound |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 souze | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brer | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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