Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 109

The story continues in the dialect: "W'en de punkin roll in de bresh--heap, out jump a rabbit; en soon's de I'shmuns see dat, he take atter de rabbit en holler: 'Kworp, colty! kworp, colty!' but de rabbit, he des flew."

Who acts: story, W'en, I'shmuns · What happens: continue, roll, jump, see, take, fly · To what, where: dialect, de bresh, rabbit, dat, atter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, W'en, I'shmuns), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continues	nsubj
3	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dialect	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dialect	det
6	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continues	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 roll	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 roll	punct
9	W'en	W'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 roll	nsubj
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 roll	amod
11	punkin	punkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roll	compound
12	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bresh	case
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 bresh	compound
15	bresh	bresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roll	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 heap	punct
17	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roll	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jump	punct
19	out	out	ADV	_	20 jump	advmod
20	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 roll	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rabbit	det
22	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jump	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 en	punct
24	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roll	conj
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 en	advmod
26	's	's	PART	_	25 soon	case
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 roll	flat:foreign
28	I'shmuns	I'shmun	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 continues	parataxis
30	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 take	nsubj
33	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	29 see	conj
34	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
35	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 holler	amod
36	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 en	compound
37	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 holler	compound
38	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 Kworp	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 Kworp	punct
41	Kworp	Kworp	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 holler	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 colty	punct
43	colty	colty	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Kworp	conj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 kworp	punct
45	kworp	kworp	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Kworp	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 colty	punct
47	colty	colty	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Kworp	conj
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 Kworp	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 Kworp	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 rabbit	cc
51	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 rabbit	amod
52	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 holler	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 flew	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 flew	nsubj
55	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 flew	nsubj
56	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 take	parataxis
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continues	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 continues	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	present	the story		the dialect		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	roll in a quote		W'en		de bresh		tree rules
3	jump in a quote	infinitive	W'en not said here	a rabbit		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Agent
4	see in a quote	present	I'shmuns	dat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus
5	take in a quote	present	W'en	atter			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument atter=Theme holler=Destination
6	fly in a quote	past	W'en				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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