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title: Bimeby dey hear little bird singin' on top er de house, en de song w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby dey hear little bird singin' on top er de house, en de song w'at de little bird sing wuz dish yer. Who acts: Bimeby dey, er house, w'at little bird. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 23

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Bimeby dey hear little bird singin' on top er de house, en de song w'at de little bird sing wuz dish yer.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby dey, er house, w'at little bird · **What happens:** hear, bird, s · **To what, where:** little bird singin, top, wuz dish

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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 dey, er house, w'at little bird), 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:pg2306:25:23
# text = Bimeby dey hear little bird singin' on top er de house, en de song w'at de little bird sing wuz dish yer.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	singin	singin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	sing	s	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Bimeby dey | little bird singin |  | top |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer singin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bird** |  | er house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **s** | gerund | w'at little bird *not said here* | wuz dish |  |  |  | y *property* | 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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