Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 49

Bimeby, he come up wid Brer Rabbit, en sot down fer to tell 'im how 'twuz, en w'iles dey wuz a settin' dar, yer come ole Miss Fox a slippin' up en grab um bofe.

Who acts: Bimeby, twuz, yer · What happens: come up, tell, wuz, come, grab · To what, where: wid Brer Rabbit, im, dar, ole Miss Fox, um bofe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, twuz, yer), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Rabbit	amod
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	compound
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sot	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sot	compound
11	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	13 fer	advmod
13	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sot	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 im	punct
17	im	im	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	obl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 wuz	advmod
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 twuz	punct
20	twuz	twuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wuz	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dey	punct
22	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 w'iles	compound
23	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dey	compound
24	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 twuz	conj
25	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 settin	det
27	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dar	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 settin	case
29	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wuz	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
31	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
33	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Fox	amod
34	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Fox	compound
35	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 slippin	det
37	slippin	slippin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 slippin	punct
39	up	up	ADP	_	40 en	case
40	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grab	obl
41	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 come	parataxis
42	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bofe	compound
43	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grab	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	present	Bimeby	wid Brer Rabbit and en sot fer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Bimeby not said here	im		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wuz	present	twuz and w'iles dey	a settin's dar		tree rules
4	come	present	yer	ole Miss Fox	a slippin obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fox=Theme
5	grab	present		um bofe	up en	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bofe=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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