Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 23

Bimeby dey come long agin an' de smart Ellick brush up by me once mo'.

Who acts: Bimeby dey, smart Ellick · What happens: come, agin, brush up · To what, where: an

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. 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, smart Ellick), 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	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 agin	advmod
5	agin	agin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 come	advcl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 agin	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 brush	punct
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smart	compound
9	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Ellick	amod
10	Ellick	Ellick	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 brush	nsubj
11	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 an	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 brush	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 brush	obl
15	once	once	SCONJ	_	16 mo	case
16	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brush	obl
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 brush	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	Bimeby dey			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	agin	gerund	Bimeby dey not said here	an	long property	tree rules
3	brush up	infinitive	smart Ellick		by me; once mo	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by i=Destination

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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