Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 52

In another story given by Mr. Smith, the cotia is very thirsty, and, seeing a man coming with a jar on his head, lies down in the road in front of him, and repeats this until the man puts down his jar to go back after all the dead cotias he has seen.

Who acts: cotia, man, seeing, Smith · What happens: give, be, see, come, lie down, repeat · To what, where: story, man, road, this, jar, dead cotias

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, man, seeing, Smith), 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 story	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thirsty	obl
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 story	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Smith	case
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Smith	nmod:desc
7	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl:agent
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cotia	det
10	cotia	cotia	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thirsty	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thirsty	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 thirsty	advmod
13	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lies	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lies	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 lies	csubj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	obj
20	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 man	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 jar	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 jar	det
23	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jar	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
28	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thirsty	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 lies	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lies	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 front	case
34	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lies	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 front	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 repeats	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 repeats	cc
39	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thirsty	conj
40	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 repeats	obj
41	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 puts	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 puts	nsubj
44	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 repeats	advcl
45	down	down	ADP	_	44 puts	compound:prt
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 jar	nmod:poss
47	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 puts	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 go	mark
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 puts	advcl
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 go	advmod
51	after	after	ADP	_	55 cotias	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 cotias	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 cotias	det
54	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 cotias	amod
55	cotias	cotia	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 go	obl
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 seen	nsubj
57	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 seen	aux
58	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 cotias	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thirsty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		another story not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	the cotia		another story		thirsty property	tree rules
3	see	gerund		a man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	a man not said here				with a jar on Smith's head	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie down	present	seeing		the road		in front of Smith; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location
6	repeat	present	the cotia not said here	this				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
7	put down	present	the man	Smith's jar				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jar=Goal
8	go back	to-infinitive	the man not said here			after all dead cotias		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
9	see	present · perfect	Smith	all dead cotias not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cotia=Stimulus

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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