Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 10
Bimeby, one day, atter de blacksmif bin spreein''roun' en cussin' might'ly, he hear a sorter rustlin' fuss at de do', en in walk de Bad Man."
Who acts: Bimeby · What happens: hear · To what, where: rustlin fuss, de
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby), 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 | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bimeby | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 atter | punct |
| 6 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bimeby | appos |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 atter | flat:foreign |
| 8 | blacksmif | blacksmif | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spreein | amod |
| 9 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreein | compound |
| 10 | spreein | spreein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 atter | conj |
| 11 | '' | '' | PUNCT | _ | 15 cussin | punct |
| 12 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 en | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 roun | case |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cussin | compound |
| 15 | cussin | cussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreein | appos |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 cussin | punct |
| 17 | might'ly | might'ly | ADV | _ | 6 atter | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bimeby | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fuss | det |
| 22 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rustlin | compound |
| 23 | rustlin | rustlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fuss | compound |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 rustlin | punct |
| 25 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 de | case |
| 27 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obl |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ', | aux |
| 29 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 30 en | punct |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 walk | case |
| 32 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 en | nmod |
| 33 | de | de | ADP | _ | 35 Man | case |
| 34 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Man | amod |
| 35 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 walk | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | Bimeby | a rustlin fuss | de | en in walk de Bad Man obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fuss=Stimulus |
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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