Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 17
Bimeby she crawls in, an' de shingles w'at she put on her side fer ter kiver wid, dey all drap off on de flo'.
Who acts: Bimeby, de, w'at · What happens: crawl, shingle, put, drap off · To what, where: fer ter kiver wid, side, de flo
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, de, w'at), 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 crawls | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crawls | nsubj |
| 3 | crawls | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 crawls | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shingles | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 de | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 de | punct |
| 8 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shingles | nsubj |
| 9 | shingles | shingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crawls | conj |
| 10 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | nsubj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shingles | ccomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 16 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 wid | amod |
| 17 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wid | compound |
| 18 | kiver | kiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wid | compound |
| 19 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dey | punct |
| 21 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wid | conj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 drap | advmod |
| 23 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | advcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 drap | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 flo | case |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 flo | compound |
| 27 | flo | flo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drap | obl |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 flo | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crawls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | present | Bimeby | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shingle | present | a de | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | past | w'at | fer ter kiver wid and dey | de's side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wid=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 4 | drap off | present | w'at not said here | de flo | all property | 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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