Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 99

Bimeby, we hear steps on de peazzer, en yer come a couple er young fellers wid strops on der shoulders, en der sodes a draggin' on de flo', en der spurrers a rattlin'.

Who acts: we, steps · What happens: hear, come · To what, where: young fellers

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 (we, steps), 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 hear	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bimeby	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 peazzer	case
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 peazzer	compound
8	peazzer	peazzer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steps	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 en	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peazzer	conj
11	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 couple	det
14	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fellers	nmod:unmarked
15	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 young	advmod
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellers	amod
17	fellers	feller	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
18	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 strops	amod
19	strops	strop	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fellers	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
21	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 shoulders	amod
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 strops	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sodes	punct
24	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sodes	compound
25	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 sodes	amod
26	sodes	sode	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fellers	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 draggin	det
28	draggin	draggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sodes	appos
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 draggin	punct
30	on	on	ADP	_	36 spurrers	case
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 flo	compound
32	flo	flo	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spurrers	nsubj
33	',	',	PART	_	32 flo	dep
34	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spurrers	compound
35	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 spurrers	amod
36	spurrers	spurrer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 draggin	nmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rattlin	det
38	rattlin	rattlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spurrers	conj
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 rattlin	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	we					Bimeby vocative	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	present	steps on de peazzer and en	young fellers a couple and wid strops on der shoulders and en der sodes					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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