Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 13

Hit wuz a mighty good year, en de truck tu'n out monstus well, but bimeby, w'en de time come fer dividjun, hit come ter light dat ole Brer Buzzard ain't got nuthin'.

Who acts: you, ole Buzzard ai · What happens: hit out, come, hit, not get · To what, where: wuz, fer dividjun, ter light, nuthin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ole Buzzard ai), 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	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 en	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 tu'n	compound
10	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tu'n	compound
11	tu'n	tu'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	1 Hit	compound:prt
13	monstus	monstus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Hit	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bimeby	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 bimeby	cc
17	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	compound
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 w'en	punct
19	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bimeby	conj
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 w'en	flat:foreign
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl:unmarked
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	conj
23	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 dividjun	amod
24	dividjun	dividjun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct
26	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hit	ccomp
28	ter	ter	X	_	29 light	compound
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obj
30	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ai	det
31	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ai	amod
32	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Buzzard	compound
33	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ai	compound
34	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	parataxis
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 got	advmod
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ai	acl:relcl
37	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obj
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 nuthin	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hit out	imperative	you not said here	wuz	time; year	en obl; well property	tree rules
2	come	infinitive	you not said here	fer dividjun			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dividjun=Theme
3	hit	past	you not said here				tree rules
4	come	infinitive	you not said here	ter light			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme
5	not get	past	that ole Buzzard ai not said here	nuthin			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nuthin=Stimulus

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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