Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 30
Bimeby dey come back, an' dis time dey come like dey wuzzent 'fear'd er de s'roundin's, fer dey trot right up unto de toof, sorter 'zamine it like, an' den trot all roun' it, like deze yer circuous hosses.
Who acts: Bimeby dey, time dey, fear · What happens: come back, come, er · To what, where: de s'roundin
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 dey, time dey, fear), 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 | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dey | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dey | punct |
| 8 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | compound |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | compound |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 wuzzent | case |
| 13 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wuzzent | compound |
| 14 | wuzzent | wuzzent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 er | obl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 er | nsubj |
| 17 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 er | aux |
| 18 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | parataxis |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 s'roundin | compound |
| 20 | s'roundin | s'roundin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 er | obj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 s'roundin | case |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 trot | punct |
| 23 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 trot | amod |
| 24 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trot | compound |
| 25 | trot | trot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 s'roundin | conj |
| 26 | right | right | ADV | _ | 27 up | advmod |
| 27 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 trot | advmod |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 30 toof | case |
| 29 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 toof | compound |
| 30 | toof | toof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trot | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 zamine | punct |
| 32 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 zamine | compound |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 zamine | punct |
| 34 | zamine | zamine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 s'roundin | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 like | nsubj |
| 36 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 34 zamine | discourse |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 trot | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 trot | det |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 trot | punct |
| 40 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trot | compound |
| 41 | trot | trot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 s'roundin | conj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 roun | det |
| 43 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 it | nsubj |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 roun | punct |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 trot | acl:relcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 deze | punct |
| 47 | like | like | ADP | _ | 48 deze | case |
| 48 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 er | obl |
| 49 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 hosses | nmod:poss |
| 50 | circuous | circuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 hosses | amod |
| 51 | hosses | hoss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 deze | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | Bimeby dey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | a time dey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | er | would | fear | de s'roundin and fer dey trot unto de toof and sorter zamine and a den trot | like dey wuzzent; like deze yer's circuous hosses | 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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