Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 19
Bimeby you won't ketch yo' train.
Who acts: Bimeby · What happens: not ketch · To what, where: train
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. 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 | 5 ketch | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ketch | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ketch | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ketch | advmod |
| 5 | ketch | ketch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 train | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 yo | case |
| 8 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ketch | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ketch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ketch | future | Bimeby | yo's train | 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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