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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 63

"En wid dat, Miss Cow tuck down de road like de dogs wuz atter er, en Brer Rabbit, he des lay down dar in de brier-patch en roll en laugh twel his sides hurtid 'im.

Who acts: de dogs, En wid dat · What happens: wuz, de, lay down, laugh · To what, where: atter er, dar · 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 (de dogs, En wid dat), 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

punctcompoundcompoundnsubjpunctcompoundcompoundapposadvmodcasenmodmarkcompoundnsubjaclcompoundobjpunctconjapposflatpunctnsubjccompcompound:prtobl:unmarkedcaseamodcompoundpunctcompoundcompoundcompoundnmodconjcompoundnmod:posscompoundobjpunctobl:unmarkedpunctroot"PUNCTEnPROPNwidNOUNdatNOUN,PUNCTMissPROPNCowNOUNtuckNOUNdownADVdeADProadNOUNlikeSCONJdeNOUNdogsNOUNwuzVERBatterNOUNerNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCThePRONdesVERBlayVERBdownADPdarNOUNinADPdeADJbrierNOUN-PUNCTpatchNOUNenNOUNrollNOUNenNOUNlaughVERBtwelNOUNhisPRONsidesNOUNhurtidNOUN'PUNCTimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_4 datpunct
2EnEnPROPNNumber=Sing4 datcompound
3widwidNOUNNumber=Sing4 datcompound
4datdatNOUNNumber=Sing24 desnsubj
5,,PUNCT_8 tuckpunct
6MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing8 tuckcompound
7CowcowNOUNNumber=Sing8 tuckcompound
8tucktuckNOUNNumber=Sing4 datappos
9downdownADV_8 tuckadvmod
10dedeADP_11 roadcase
11roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing8 tucknmod
12likelikeSCONJ_15 wuzmark
13dedeNOUNNumber=Sing14 dogscompound
14dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur15 wuznsubj
15wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 roadacl
16atteratterNOUNNumber=Sing17 ercompound
17ererNOUNNumber=Sing15 wuzobj
18,,PUNCT_19 enpunct
19enenNOUNNumber=Sing17 erconj
20BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing19 enappos
21RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing20 Brerflat
22,,PUNCT_4 datpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 desnsubj
24desdeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
25laylayVERBVerbForm=Inf24 desccomp
26downdownADP_25 laycompound:prt
27dardarNOUNNumber=Sing36 laughobl:unmarked
28ininADP_35 encase
29dedeADJDegree=Pos35 enamod
30brierbrierNOUNNumber=Sing32 patchcompound
31--PUNCT_30 brierpunct
32patchpatchNOUNNumber=Sing33 encompound
33enenNOUNNumber=Sing34 rollcompound
34rollrollNOUNNumber=Sing35 encompound
35enenNOUNNumber=Sing27 darnmod
36laughlaughVERBVerbForm=Inf25 layconj
37tweltwelNOUNNumber=Sing40 hurtidcompound
38hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 sidesnmod:poss
39sidessideNOUNNumber=Plur40 hurtidcompound
40hurtidhurtidNOUNNumber=Sing36 laughobj
41''PUNCT_40 hurtidpunct
42imimPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes36 laughobl:unmarked
43..PUNCT_24 despunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wuz in a quotepresentde dogsatter er and entree rules
2de in a quotepresentEn wid dattree rules
3lay down in a quoteinfinitiveEn wid dat not said herevn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4laugh in a quoteinfinitiveEn wid dat not said heredar in de roll enim obl:unmarkedvn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurtid=Theme

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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