Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 102
Bimeby one un um see me, en he say, sezee:
Who acts: Bimeby, en · What happens: see, say · To what, where: me, en · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, 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 | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 um | nummod |
| 3 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 um | compound |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bimeby | appos |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bimeby | acl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bimeby | appos |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 8 en | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sezee | punct |
| 12 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bimeby | appos |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sezee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | Bimeby not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | en | en not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent en=Topic |
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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