Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 15
Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in' up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity:
Who acts: Bimeby · What happens: see, cle'r up · To what, where: great big stalk, th'oat
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. 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 | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stalk | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stalk | amod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stalk | amod |
| 7 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 8 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 12 stan'in | cc |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cane | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sugar | punct |
| 11 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stan'in | compound |
| 12 | stan'in | stan'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stalk | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 stan'in | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 stan'in | compound |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cornder | case |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 cornder | compound |
| 17 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stan'in | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stalk | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cle'r | nsubj |
| 21 | cle'r | cle'r | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 en | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 cle'r | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 th'oat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | th'oat | th'oat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cle'r | obj |
| 25 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 biggity | amod |
| 26 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 biggity | compound |
| 27 | biggity | biggity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 th'oat | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | Bimeby | a great big stalk er cane stan'in in de cornder and en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stalk=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cle'r up | present | Bimeby | Bimeby's th'oat and en talk biggity | 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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