Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 26

Bimeby I feel 'im comin' agin, an' dis time hit look like he come up closer--kinder skummishin' 'roun' fer ter see how de lan' lay.

Who acts: Bimeby, im comin · What happens: feel, hit, look, come up, see, lay · To what, where: dis time, de lan

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, im comin), 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	3 feel	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 comin	punct
5	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comin	amod
6	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	nsubj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 agin	punct
8	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comin	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
12	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	compound
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comin	conj
14	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 look	nsubj
15	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 time	acl:relcl
16	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 look	advcl
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 come	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 skummishin	punct
22	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 skummishin	amod
23	skummishin	skummishin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	nsubj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 skummishin	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 roun	punct
26	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ter	compound
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 roun	punct
28	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ter	compound
29	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	compound
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	ccomp
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 de	advmod
32	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lan	amod
33	lan	lan	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 lan	punct
35	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Bimeby			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	present		a dis time not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute
4	come up	present	Bimeby		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	infinitive	im comin and agin and a dis time	de lan		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lan=Stimulus
6	lay	infinitive	im comin and agin and a dis time not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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