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title: Bimeby I feel 'im comin' agin, an' dis time hit look like he come up… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby I feel 'im comin' agin, an' dis time hit look like he come up closer--kinder skummishin' 'roun' fer ter see how de lan' lay. Who acts: Bimeby, im comin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 26

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Bimeby I feel 'im comin' agin, an' dis time hit look like he come up closer--kinder skummishin' 'roun' fer ter see how de lan' lay.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, im comin · **What happens:** feel, hit, look, come up, see, lay · **To what, where:** dis time, de lan

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, im comin), 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:pg2306:52:26
# text = Bimeby I feel 'im comin' agin, an' dis time hit look like he come up closer--kinder skummishin' 'roun' fer ter see how de lan' lay.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	nsubj	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	skummishin	skummishin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lan	lan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | Bimeby |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present |  | a dis time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute |
| 4 | **come up** | present | Bimeby |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | im comin and agin and a dis time | de lan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lan=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lay** | infinitive | im comin and agin and a dis time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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