Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 30

Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabbit settin' crosslegged on a chinkapin log koamin' de pitch outen his har wid a chip.

Who acts: Bimeby · What happens: hear, see, crosslegg · To what, where: somebody call, Brer Rabbit settin, log koamin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby), 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 hear	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 call	compound
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 im	punct
7	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	compound
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	conj
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 way	advmod
12	de	de	ADP	_	13 hill	case
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hill	acl:relcl
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 settin	compound
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 settin	compound
18	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 crosslegged	punct
20	crosslegged	crosslegg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 settin	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 koamin	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 koamin	det
23	chinkapin	chinkapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 log	compound
24	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 koamin	compound
25	koamin	koamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crosslegged	obl
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 koamin	punct
27	de	de	PART	_	29 outen	mark
28	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 outen	compound
29	outen	outen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 koamin	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wid	nmod:poss
31	har	har	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wid	amod
32	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 outen	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 chip	det
34	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wid	nmod:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	present	Bimeby	somebody call and im and en way de hill		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus
2	see	past	Bimeby	Brer Rabbit settin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer settin=Stimulus
3	crosslegg	participle		Brer Rabbit settin not said here	a log koamin and pitch outen and Bimeby's har wid a chip	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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