Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 10
Bimeby, w'ile he wuz a settin' dar, up he jump en crack his heels tergedder en sing out:
Who acts: Bimeby w'ile, w'ile, tergedder en · What happens: wuz, jump, crack, s out · To what, where: dar, en, heels
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby w'ile, w'ile, tergedder en), 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 | 3 w'ile | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bimeby | punct |
| 3 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wuz | nsubj |
| 5 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 settin | det |
| 7 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dar | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 settin | case |
| 9 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wuz | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jump | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 jump | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 jump | nsubj |
| 13 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wuz | conj |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jump | obj |
| 15 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 jump | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crack | obj |
| 18 | tergedder | tergedd | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 en | amod |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crack | obj |
| 20 | sing | s | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 en | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sing | compound:prt |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 wuz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wuz | present | Bimeby w'ile | a settin's dar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump | infinitive | w'ile | en | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crack | infinitive | w'ile not said here | dey's heels | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent heel=Patient en=Result | ||||
| 4 | s out | gerund | tergedder en not said here | 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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