Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 39

"'W'iles I wuz cleanin' up my new-groun' day 'fo' yistiddy,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'I come 'cross wunner deze yer ole time bee- trees.

Who acts: W'iles, Rabbit up'n · What happens: wuz, say, come · To what, where: cleanin, Brer, cross wunner deze · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of 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'iles, Rabbit up'n), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wuz	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 W'iles	punct
3	W'iles	w'ile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wuz	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wuz	nsubj
5	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cleanin	cleanin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wuz	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 cleanin	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	12 groun	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 groun	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 groun	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 new	punct
12	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wuz	obl
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 groun	appos
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
16	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	18 yistiddy	mark
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 yistiddy	punct
18	yistiddy	yistiddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sez	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 sez	punct
21	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wuz	parataxis
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sez	obj
23	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Brer	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sezee	punct
25	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Brer	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sez	conj
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 deze	punct
31	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 deze	amod
32	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 deze	compound
33	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
34	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 trees	nmod:poss
35	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 trees	compound
37	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 trees	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 bee	punct
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 deze	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wuz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wuz in a quote	present	W'iles	cleanin	up my new groun	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	Rabbit up'n = up'n	cross wunner deze yer's time bee trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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