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title: Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in' up in de corn… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in' up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity: Who acts: Bimeby. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 15

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Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in' up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity:

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**Who acts:** Bimeby · **What happens:** see, cle'r up · **To what, where:** great big stalk, th'oat

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. 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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:25:15
# text = Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in' up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity:
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stan'in	stan'in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cle'r	cle'r	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	th'oat	th'oat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	biggity	biggity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | Bimeby | a great big stalk er cane stan'in in de cornder and en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stalk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cle'r up** | present | Bimeby | Bimeby's th'oat and en talk biggity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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