Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 69

I hear dat baby cryin', en bimeby Miss Sally'll fly up en be a holler'n atter you"

Who acts: I, Miss · What happens: hear, fly up, be · To what, where: dat baby, holler'n atter

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 (I, Miss), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 baby	compound
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
5	cryin	cryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bimeby	compound
6	',	',	PART	_	5 cryin	dep
7	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bimeby	compound
8	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fly	nsubj
10	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Miss	flat
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 atter	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 fly	compound:prt
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	conj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 atter	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 atter	det
17	holler'n	holler'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 atter	compound
18	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bimeby	nmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 atter	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 you	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	dat baby	cryin en bimeby obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
2	fly up	future	Miss			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	infinitive		a holler'n atter		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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