Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 16
Bimeby, Miss Meadows, she up'n ax, she did, how he gwine do it.
Who acts: en, Bimeby Miss Meadows, dey · What happens: ax, do · To what, where: gwine
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, Bimeby Miss Meadows, dey), 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 | 4 Meadows | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bimeby | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Meadows | compound |
| 4 | Meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 did | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ax | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ax | nsubj |
| 7 | up'n | up'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ax | compound |
| 8 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Meadows | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 do | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ax | en | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | Bimeby Miss Meadows and up'n ax | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | dey | gwine | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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