Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 51

The cotia finally jumps from the jaguar and takes refuge in a hole, where an owl is set to watch him, but he flings sand in the owl's eyes and escapes.

Who acts: cotia, owl, jaguar · What happens: jump, take, be, watch, fling · To what, where: refuge, hole, jaguar, sand, eyes

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, owl, 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	4 jumps	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 jumps	advmod
4	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 jaguar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jaguar	det
7	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumps	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 takes	cc
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jumps	conj
10	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hole	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 set	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 owl	det
17	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 set	cop
19	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hole	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 watch	mark
21	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 set	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watch	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flings	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 flings	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flings	nsubj
26	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jumps	conj
27	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flings	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 eyes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 owl	det
30	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eyes	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 owl	case
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flings	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 escapes	cc
34	escapes	escape	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eyes	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	present	the cotia			from the jaguar; finally property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from jaguar=Trajectory
2	take	present	the cotia not said here	refuge	a hole		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in hole=Location
3	is	present	a owl			set property	tree rules
4	watch	to-infinitive	a owl not said here	jaguar			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	fling	present	jaguar	sand	the owl's eyes and escapes		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sand=Theme in eye=Destination

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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