Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 4

En he didn't hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin' down de road--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird.

Who acts: en, dez · What happens: not wait, come, bird · To what, where: En, Brer

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, dez), 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	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wait	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wait	advmod
5	hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	compound
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 En	acl:relcl
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wait	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nudder	punct
9	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 En	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kaze	punct
11	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 En	conj
12	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	obj
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	flat
17	pacin	pacin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Brer	list
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 down	punct
19	down	down	ADV	_	25 clippity	advmod
20	de	de	ADP	_	25 clippity	case
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clippity	compound
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 road	punct
23	lippity	lippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clippity	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 clippity	punct
25	clippity	clippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lippity	punct
27	clippity	clippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lippity	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 clippity	punct
29	lippity	lippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clippity	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 bird	punct
31	dez	dez	X	Foreign=Yes	38 bird	nsubj
32	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bird	amod
33	sassy	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bird	amod
34	ez	ez	X	Foreign=Yes	38 bird	nsubj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bird	det
36	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bird	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 jay	punct
38	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clippity	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wait	past · do-support	en	En and nudder and kaze not said here		long property	tree rules
2	come	infinitive	En and nudder and kaze	Brer	here	de road lippity clippity and clippity lippity and a ez sassy jay bird; bimeby property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brer=Theme
3	bird		dez				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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