Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 23

Bimeby dey hear little bird singin' on top er de house, en de song w'at de little bird sing wuz dish yer.

Who acts: Bimeby dey, er house, w'at little bird · What happens: hear, bird, s · To what, where: little bird singin, top, wuz dish

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 dey, er house, w'at little bird), 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 dey	compound
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 singin	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singin	compound
6	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 singin	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 top	case
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl
10	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	12 house	amod
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 er	flat:foreign
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bird	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bird	nsubj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 w'at	compound
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 w'at	compound
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bird	compound
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 w'at	flat:foreign
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bird	amod
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	parataxis
21	sing	s	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 bird	acl
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dish	compound
23	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sing	obj
24	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sing	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Bimeby dey	little bird singin	top		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer singin=Stimulus
2	bird		er house				tree rules
3	s	gerund	w'at little bird not said here	wuz dish		y property	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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