Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 25
Bimeby, here come de fokes: Jedge Buzzard, he come, en Miss Meadows en de gals, dey come, en den yer come Brer Rabbit wid ribbons tied 'roun' his neck en streamin' fum his years.
Who acts: Bimeby, yer, en den, Brer wid ribbons, en streamin · What happens: come, ribbon, tie, fum · To what, where: fokes, en, en den, roun
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, yer, en den, Brer wid ribbons), 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 | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bimeby | punct |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jedge | punct |
| 8 | Jedge | Jedge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fokes | appos |
| 9 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jedge | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Meadows | compound |
| 16 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 en | compound |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 en | conj |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 en | flat:foreign |
| 19 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 en | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dey | punct |
| 21 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gals | conj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 den | punct |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 den | compound |
| 25 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ribbons | nsubj |
| 26 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 den | acl:relcl |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 ribbons | compound |
| 29 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Brer | flat |
| 30 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ribbons | amod |
| 31 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 come | obl |
| 32 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 ribbons | acl |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 roun | punct |
| 34 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tied | obj |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 roun | punct |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 streamin | nmod:poss |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 en | compound |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 streamin | compound |
| 39 | streamin | streamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fum | nsubj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 streamin | punct |
| 41 | fum | fum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 roun | acl:relcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 years | nmod:poss |
| 43 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fum | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Bimeby | fokes | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foke=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Bimeby | en and Meadows en and gals and dey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | Bimeby not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | present | yer | en den not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location den=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ribbon | en den | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | tie | participle | Brer wid ribbons not said here | roun | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fum | infinitive | en's en streamin | roun not said here | year | tree rules |
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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