Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 11
Den he draw back en come down on de tree--pow!
Who acts: Den, en · What happens: draw back, come down · To what, where: de tree
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 (Den, en), 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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 draw | compound |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 draw | advmod |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 draw | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 pow | punct |
| 12 | pow | pow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | present | Den | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come down | present | en | de tree and pow | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
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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