Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 43

Bimeby, ole Brer Tarrypin look way off down de road en he see Jedge Buzzard sailin' long en he know hit's time fer 'im fer ter be up.

Who acts: Bimeby · What happens: look, see, know, hit · To what, where: way, road en, long en

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), 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	6 look	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Brer	punct
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Brer	amod
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	conj
5	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brer	flat
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obj
8	off	off	ADV	_	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
10	de	de	ADP	_	12 en	case
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 en	compound
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sailin	flat
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 en	acl:relcl
15	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sailin	compound
16	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Jedge	flat
17	sailin	sailin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	parataxis
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 sailin	punct
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 en	amod
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sailin	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	20 en	acl:relcl
23	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 time	amod
24	's	's	PART	_	23 hit	case
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fer	compound
26	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	ccomp
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 ter	punct
28	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fer	compound
29	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ter	compound
30	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fer	appos
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 up	cop
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 ter	compound
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Bimeby and ole Brer	way	down property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute
2	see	past	Bimeby	road en not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus
3	know	present	Bimeby	long en not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus
4	hit	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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