Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 10

En wid dat he fling off his coat, en spit in his han's, en grab de axe.

Who acts: En, Den · What happens: wi, fl off · To what, where: dat, coat

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, Den), 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	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wid	nsubj
2	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wid	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fling	nsubj
5	fling	fl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wid	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fling	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 coat	nmod:poss
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spit	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spit	compound
11	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wid	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 han	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 han	nmod:poss
14	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spit	nmod
15	's	's	PART	_	14 han	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 axe	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grab	compound
18	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 axe	compound
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 axe	amod
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spit	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wi	past	En	dat				en spit in Den's han and grab de axe obl	tree rules
2	fl off	gerund	Den	Den's coat					tree rules

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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