Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 10

But 'twan't no year, an 'twan't no mont', en mo'n dat, hit wa'n't skasely a week, w'en bimeby one day Brer B'ar wuz gwine home fum de takin' un a bee-tree, en lo en behol's, who should he see but ole Brer Bull-frog settin' out on de aidge er de mud-muddle fas' 'sleep!

Who acts: twa, one day, en behol, muddle fas · What happens: hit, gwine, fum, see, sleep · To what, where: w'en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twa, one day, en behol, muddle fas), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 hit	cc
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 twa	punct
3	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hit	nsubj
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 year	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twa	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 twa	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 twa	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 twa	punct
10	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twa	conj
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 en	advmod
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 mont	det
13	mont	mont	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 en	compound
14	',	',	PART	_	13 mont	dep
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twa	nmod
16	mo'n	mo'n	CCONJ	_	17 dat	cc
17	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 en	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hit	punct
19	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	wa'	wa'	INTJ	_	19 hit	discourse
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 skasely	advmod
22	skasely	skasely	ADV	_	19 hit	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 week	det
24	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 skasely	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 w'en	punct
26	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fum	obl
27	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	_	33 gwine	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 day	nummod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gwine	nsubj
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 gwine	compound
31	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Brer	flat
32	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gwine	compound
33	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 w'en	nmod
34	home	home	ADV	_	35 fum	advmod
35	fum	fum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hit	parataxis
36	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	37 takin	compound
37	takin	takin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fum	obj
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 takin	punct
39	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	43 tree	compound
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 takin	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 en	punct
45	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tree	conj
46	lo	lo	ADP	_	48 behol	case
47	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 behol	compound
48	behol	behol	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 en	nmod
49	's	's	PART	_	48 behol	case
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 see	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 see	nsubj
52	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 see	aux
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 see	nsubj
54	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 behol	conj
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 settin	cc
56	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 settin	amod
57	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 settin	compound
58	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 frog	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 Bull	punct
60	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 settin	compound
61	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tree	conj
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	61 settin	punct
63	out	out	ADP	_	61 settin	compound
64	on	on	ADP	_	66 aidge	case
65	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	66 aidge	compound
66	aidge	aidge	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 settin	conj
67	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	66 aidge	dep
68	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	67 er	flat:foreign
69	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 muddle	compound
70	-	-	PUNCT	_	69 mud	punct
71	muddle	muddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 fas	compound
72	fas	fa	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 sleep	nmod:poss
73	'	's	PART	_	72 fas	case
74	'	'	PUNCT	_	75 sleep	punct
75	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 er	obj
76	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	infinitive	twa no year and a twa mont en mo'n dat		skasely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gwine		one day		bimeby property	tree rules
3	fum	present		w'en	home property	tree rules
4	see	should	en behol			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	sleep		muddle fas			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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