Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 14

W'ile he wuz a fixin' up a tale fer Brer Fox, he hear a lumberin' down de road, en present'y yer cum ole Brer B'ar amblin' 'long fum whar he bin takin' a bee-tree.

Who acts: W'ile, en · What happens: wuz, hear, amblin, bin · To what, where: fixin, lumberin, road, takin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'ile, en), 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	W'ile	W'ile	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wuz	nsubj
3	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fixin	det
5	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 fixin	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	10 fer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fer	det
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fer	compound
10	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	obl
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fer	appos
12	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brer	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 wuz	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lumberin	det
17	lumberin	lumberin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 down	punct
19	down	down	ADV	_	15 hear	advmod
20	de	de	ADP	_	21 road	case
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 en	punct
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 amblin	nsubj
24	present'y	present'y	ADV	_	23 en	advmod
25	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ole	nmod:poss
26	cum	cum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ole	compound
27	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 amblin	compound
28	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ole	appos
29	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Brer	flat
30	amblin	amblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 road	acl:relcl
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 amblin	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 amblin	punct
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 whar	amod
34	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 whar	compound
35	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 amblin	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bin	nsubj
37	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	35 whar	acl:relcl
38	takin	takin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bin	obj
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 takin	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 tree	det
41	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tree	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 bee	punct
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bin	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wuz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wuz	present	W'ile	a fixin	up a tale fer	tree rules
2	hear	present	W'ile	a lumberin	de road; down property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lumberin=Stimulus
3	amblin		en	road not said here		tree rules
4	bin	present	en	takin		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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