Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 38

In the next, a jaguar catches a tortoise by the hind-leg as he is disappearing in his hole; but the tortoise convinces him he is holding a root, and so escapes; Uncle Remus tells how the fox endeavored to drown the terrapin, but turned him loose because the terrapin declared his tail to be only a stump-root.

Who acts: jaguar, tortoise, Uncle Remus, fox, terrapin · What happens: catch, disappear, convince, hold, tell, endeavor · To what, where: tortoise, next, hole, jaguar, root, terrapin · 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 (jaguar, tortoise, Uncle Remus, fox), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 next	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 next	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 catches	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 next	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jaguar	det
6	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	nsubj
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tortoise	det
9	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 leg	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leg	det
12	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leg	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 hind	punct
14	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 disappearing	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 disappearing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 disappearing	aux
18	disappearing	disappear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 catches	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hole	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hole	nmod:poss
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disappearing	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 convinces	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 convinces	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tortoise	det
25	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 convinces	nsubj
26	convinces	convince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 catches	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 convinces	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 holding	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 holding	aux
30	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 convinces	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 root	det
32	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 holding	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 escapes	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 escapes	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 escapes	advmod
36	escapes	escape	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 convinces	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 tells	punct
38	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Remus	compound
39	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 tells	nsubj
40	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 catches	parataxis
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 endeavored	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fox	det
43	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 endeavored	nsubj
44	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tells	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 drown	mark
46	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 endeavored	xcomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 terrapin	det
48	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 drown	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 turned	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 turned	cc
51	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 catches	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 turned	obj
53	loose	loose	ADV	_	51 turned	advmod
54	because	because	SCONJ	_	57 declared	mark
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 terrapin	det
56	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 declared	nsubj
57	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 turned	advcl
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 tail	nmod:poss
59	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 declared	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	66 root	mark
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	66 root	cop
62	only	only	ADV	_	66 root	advmod
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 root	det
64	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 root	compound
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 stump	punct
66	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 declared	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	present	a jaguar	a tortoise	the next	by the hind leg	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme
2	disappear	present · progressive	jaguar		jaguar's hole		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	convince	present	the tortoise	jaguar		escapes obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	hold	present · progressive	tortoise	a root			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	present	Uncle Remus				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	endeavor	past	the fox				tree rules
7	drown	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	the terrapin			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terrapin=Patient
8	turn	past	a jaguar not said here	terrapin		loose property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result
9	declare speech: other	past	the terrapin	terrapin's tail			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Attribute
10	is a	to-infinitive	the terrapin not said here	a stump root			tree rules

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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