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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 57

"Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Rabbit, en down de big road dey had it, Brer Rabbit wid his years laid back, en Miss Cow wid 'er head down en 'er tail curl.

Who acts: Den, Cow, big road dey, Brer, years, en · What happens: pull out, do, have, wi, lay back, wid · To what, where: horn, en tuck atter, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, Cow, big road dey, Brer), 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

punctnsubjflatconjpunctnsubjcompound:prtpunctmarkxcomppunctnsubjparataxispunctcompoundcompoundobjapposflatpunctconjadvmodadvmodamodcompoundnsubjparataxisobjpunctnsubjflatconjnmod:possnsubjccompadvmodpunctnsubjcompoundcompoundoblpunctmarkadvclcompound:prtobjpunctmarkcompoundadvclpunctroot"PUNCTDenPROPNMissPROPNCowNOUN,PUNCTshePRONpullVERBoutADP'PUNCTerPARThornNOUN,PUNCTshePRONdidVERB,PUNCTenNOUNtuckNOUNatterNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCTenNOUNdownADVdeADVbigADJroadNOUNdeyNOUNhadVERBitPRON,PUNCTBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNwidVERBhisPRONyearsNOUNlaidVERBbackADV,PUNCTenNOUNMissPROPNCowNOUNwidNOUN'PUNCTerPARTheadNOUNdownADPenNOUN'PUNCTerPARTtailNOUNcurlNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Denpunct
2DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing7 pullnsubj
3MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing2 Denflat
4CowcowNOUNNumber=Sing2 Denconj
5,,PUNCT_2 Denpunct
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 pullnsubj
7pullpullVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
8outoutADP_7 pullcompound:prt
9''PUNCT_7 pullpunct
10ererPART_11 hornmark
11hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing7 pullxcomp
12,,PUNCT_14 didpunct
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 didnsubj
14diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 pullparataxis
15,,PUNCT_18 atterpunct
16enenNOUNNumber=Sing18 attercompound
17tucktuckNOUNNumber=Sing18 attercompound
18atteratterNOUNNumber=Sing14 didobj
19BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing18 atterappos
20RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing19 Brerflat
21,,PUNCT_22 enpunct
22enenNOUNNumber=Sing18 atterconj
23downdownADV_14 didadvmod
24dedeADV_25 bigadvmod
25bigbigADJDegree=Pos27 deyamod
26roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing27 deycompound
27deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing28 hadnsubj
28hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 didparataxis
29ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 hadobj
30,,PUNCT_33 widpunct
31BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing33 widnsubj
32RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing31 Brerflat
33widwiVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 pullconj
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 yearsnmod:poss
35yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur36 laidnsubj
36laidlayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 widccomp
37backbackADV_36 laidadvmod
38,,PUNCT_42 widpunct
39enenNOUNNumber=Sing42 widnsubj
40MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing42 widcompound
41CowcowNOUNNumber=Sing42 widcompound
42widwidNOUNNumber=Sing7 pullobl
43''PUNCT_42 widpunct
44ererPART_45 headmark
45headheadNOUNNumber=Sing7 pulladvcl
46downdownADP_7 pullcompound:prt
47enenNOUNNumber=Sing7 pullobj
48''PUNCT_7 pullpunct
49ererPART_51 curlmark
50tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing51 curlcompound
51curlcurlNOUNNumber=Sing7 pulladvcl
52..PUNCT_7 pullpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pull out in a quoteinfinitiveDen and Cowhorntree rules
2do in a quotepastCowen tuck atter and endown propertyvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Eventuality
3have in a quotepastbig road deysezeevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4wi in a quotepastBrertree rules
5lay back in a quotepastDey's yearsvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6wid in a quoteentree 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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