Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 55

Bimeby, yer come a big black dog snuffin' roun', en de nigger up wid a chunk en lammed 'im side er de head.

Who acts: Bimeby, big dog snuffin, chunk en · What happens: come, wi, lam · To what, where: im side

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, big dog snuffin, chunk 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	4 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bimeby	punct
3	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snuffin	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snuffin	amod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snuffin	compound
9	snuffin	snuffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wid	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 en	punct
11	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 en	compound
12	',	',	PART	_	11 roun	dep
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nigger	compound
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 en	flat:foreign
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snuffin	nmod
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 nigger	compound
17	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 en	det
19	chunk	chunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 en	compound
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lammed	nsubj
21	lammed	lam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wid	ccomp
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 side	punct
23	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 side	amod
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lammed	obl
25	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 head	advmod
26	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 head	amod
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 side	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	Bimeby		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wi	past	a big dog snuffin en nigger		tree rules
3	lam	past	a chunk en	im side de head	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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