Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 42

The tortoise thereupon gets a vine-stem, ties one end around the body of the tapir, and goes to the sea, where he ties the other end to the tail of a whale.

Who acts: tortoise · What happens: get, tie, go · To what, where: vine stem, one end, body, sea, other end

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), 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 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	4 gets	advmod
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stem	det
6	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stem	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 vine	punct
8	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ties	punct
10	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 end	nummod
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ties	obj
13	around	around	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ties	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tapir	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tapir	det
18	tapir	tapir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 body	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 goes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 goes	cc
21	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 goes	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ties	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 ties	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ties	nsubj
28	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 goes	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 end	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 end	amod
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ties	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 tail	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tail	det
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ties	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 whale	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 whale	det
37	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tail	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	the tortoise	a vine stem		thereupon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stem=Stimulus
2	tie	present	the tortoise not said here	one end	the body of the tapir		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
3	go	present	the tortoise not said here		the sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
4	tie	present	tortoise	the other end		to the tail of a whale	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent end=Patient to tail=Co-Patient

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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