Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 48

The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tells the deer that he can make a riding-horse of the jaguar.

Who acts: cotia, jaguar · What happens: be, tell, make · To what, where: love, deer, riding horse · 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 (cotia, jaguar), 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 cotia	det
2	cotia	cotia	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 love	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 species	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 species	det
5	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cotia	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rodent	case
7	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 species	nmod
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 cotia	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 love	cop
10	also	also	ADV	_	12 love	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 love	case
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 love	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tells	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tells	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tells	nsubj
18	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 love	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 deer	det
20	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tells	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 make	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 make	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 make	aux
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tells	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 horse	det
26	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 horse	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 riding	punct
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 jaguar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 jaguar	det
31	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 horse	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cotia		love	with horse	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	jaguar	the deer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deer=Recipient
3	make	can	jaguar	a riding horse of the jaguar			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product

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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