Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 46
Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooin', en he up'n say:
Who acts: Brer · What happens: stop, say · To what, where: cryin, hooin en · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brer), 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 ole | compound |
| 2 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frog | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frog | compound |
| 4 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frog | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bull | punct |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stop | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 9 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 frog | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cryin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cryin | cryin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cryin | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hooin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boo | boo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hooin | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 boo | punct |
| 18 | hooin | hooin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 19 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 18 hooin | dep |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 en | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 say | nsubj |
| 22 | up'n | up'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 en | acl:relcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 frog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | Brer | Brer's cryin and en and hooin en | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cryin=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Brer | hooin en not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic |
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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