Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 41

He tells the latter he can drag him into the sea, but the tapir retorts that he will pull the tortoise into the forest and kill him besides.

Who acts: tortoise, tapir · What happens: tell, drag, retort, pull, kill · To what, where: latter, rabbit, sea, tortoise, forest · 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 (tortoise, tapir), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 latter	det
4	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tells	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drag	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 drag	aux
7	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drag	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drag	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 retorts	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 retorts	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tapir	det
15	tapir	tapir	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 retorts	nsubj
16	retorts	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 pull	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pull	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pull	aux
20	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 retorts	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tortoise	det
22	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pull	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pull	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kill	cc
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pull	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kill	obj
29	besides	besides	ADV	_	27 kill	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	tortoise	the latter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent latter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drag	can	tortoise	rabbit	the sea		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	retort speech: other	present	the tapir				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pull	future	tortoise	the tortoise	the forest		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme
5	kill	infinitive	tortoise not said here	tortoise		besides property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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