Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 7
Bimeby hit'll be yo' bed time, en Miss Sally'll be a hollerin' atter you, en you'll be a whimplin' roun', en den Mars John'll fetch up de re'r wid dat ar strop w'at I made fer im."
Who acts: Bimeby, Miss, you, dat, I · What happens: hit, be, fetch up, w'at, make · To what, where: en, hollerin atter, roun, de re'r, fer im
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, Miss, you, dat), 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 | 2 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 yo | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yo | cop |
| 5 | yo | yo | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hit | xcomp |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yo | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | obl |
| 11 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | nsubj |
| 12 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Miss | flat |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 atter | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 atter | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 atter | det |
| 16 | hollerin | hollerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | compound |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 atter | punct |
| 18 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 atter | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 atter | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 fetch | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 roun | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 roun | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 whimplin | det |
| 26 | whimplin | whimplin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roun | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 whimplin | case |
| 28 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Mars | nmod:desc |
| 29 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 28 roun | dep |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 den | compound |
| 31 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Mars | compound |
| 32 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 fetch | nsubj |
| 33 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mars | flat |
| 34 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fetch | aux |
| 35 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 en | acl:relcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 fetch | compound:prt |
| 37 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 re'r | compound |
| 38 | re'r | re'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fetch | obj |
| 39 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 w'at | amod |
| 40 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 w'at | nsubj |
| 41 | ar | ar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 w'at | amod |
| 42 | strop | strop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 w'at | compound |
| 43 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 re'r | conj |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 made | nsubj |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 46 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 im | amod |
| 47 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 made | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Bimeby | en | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | Bimeby not said here | time | yo property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | future | Miss | a hollerin atter and en | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | future | a whimplin's roun | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fetch up | future | you | de re'r and wid ar strop w'at | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent re'r=Theme | ||||
| 6 | w'at | dat | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | make | past | I | fer im | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent im=Product |
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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