Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 7

Gwine 'long one day, met Johnny Huby, ax him grine nine yards er steel fer me, tole me w'ich he couldn't; den I hist 'im over Hickerson Dickerson's barn-doors; knock 'im ninety-nine miles under water, w'en he rise, he rise in Pike straddle un a hanspike, en I lef' 'im dar smokin' er de hornpipe, Juba reda seda breda.

Who acts: long one day, I, w'en, hanspike · What happens: meet, ax, hist, knock, rise, lef · To what, where: Johnny, im ninety, water, Pike straddle un

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 (long one day, I, w'en, hanspike), 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	Gwine	Gwine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Gwine	case
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
9	Huby	Huby	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Johnny	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ax	punct
11	ax	ax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 met	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ax	obj
13	grine	grine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 yards	amod
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 yards	nummod
15	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 could	nsubj
16	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fer	amod
17	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fer	compound
18	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yards	nmod
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fer	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tole	punct
21	tole	tole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fer	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tole	nmod:unmarked
23	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fer	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 could	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 ax	advcl
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 could	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hist	punct
28	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hist	compound
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 hist	nsubj
30	hist	hist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 met	parataxis
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 im	punct
32	im	im	ADV	_	30 hist	advmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	39 doors	case
34	Hickerson	Hickerson	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 doors	nmod:poss
35	Dickerson	Dickerson	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Hickerson	flat
36	's	's	PART	_	34 Hickerson	case
37	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 doors	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 barn	punct
39	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 im	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 knock	punct
41	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 hist	conj
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 ninety	punct
43	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ninety	amod
44	ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 knock	obj
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 ninety	punct
46	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 miles	nummod
47	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 knock	obj
48	under	under	ADP	_	49 water	case
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 knock	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 rise	punct
51	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rise	nsubj
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 rise	nsubj
53	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 knock	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 rise	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 rise	nsubj
56	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 met	parataxis
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 un	case
58	Pike	Pike	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 un	compound
59	straddle	straddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 un	compound
60	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 lef	obl
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 hanspike	det
62	hanspike	hanspike	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 lef	nsubj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 en	punct
64	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 lef	compound
65	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 lef	nsubj
66	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rise	obl
67	'	'	PUNCT	_	66 lef	punct
68	'	'	PUNCT	_	71 smokin	punct
69	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 smokin	amod
70	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 smokin	amod
71	smokin	smokin	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 lef	conj
72	'	'	PUNCT	_	71 smokin	punct
73	er	er	X	_	75 hornpipe	compound
74	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	73 er	flat:foreign
75	hornpipe	hornpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 smokin	conj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 breda	punct
77	Juba	Juba	PROPN	Number=Sing	80 breda	compound
78	reda	reda	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 seda	compound
79	seda	seda	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 breda	compound
80	breda	breda	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 smokin	conj
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	Gwine's long one day	Johnny		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent johnny=Co-Agent
2	ax	infinitive	Gwine's long one day not said here	Johnny		tree rules
3	hist	present	I			tree rules
4	knock	infinitive	I not said here	im ninety	water	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ninety=Destination mile=Theme
5	rise	infinitive	w'en			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rise	present	w'en			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lef		a hanspike		Pike straddle un	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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