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title: Bimeby she crawls in, an' de shingles w'at she put on her side fer t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby she crawls in, an' de shingles w'at she put on her side fer ter kiver wid, dey all drap off on de flo'. Who acts: Bimeby, de, w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 17

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Bimeby she crawls in, an' de shingles w'at she put on her side fer ter kiver wid, dey all drap off on de flo'.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, de, w'at · **What happens:** crawl, shingle, put, drap off · **To what, where:** fer ter kiver wid, side, de flo

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, de, w'at), 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:pg2306:66:17
# text = Bimeby she crawls in, an' de shingles w'at she put on her side fer ter kiver wid, dey all drap off on de flo'.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shingles	shingle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	kiver	kiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	flo	flo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | present | Bimeby |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shingle** | present | a de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | w'at | fer ter kiver wid and dey |  | de's side |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wid=Theme on side=Destination |
| 4 | **drap off** | present | w'at *not said here* |  |  | de flo |  | all *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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