Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game, sentence 29

"Den Brer Fox, he sorter koam his flank wid his tongue, en holler back:

Who acts: Hunter, Den, flank · What happens: sorter, koam, wi · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. Mr. Fox Goes A-hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, Den, flank), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Den	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 koam	nsubj
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorter	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sorter	nsubj
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Den	conj
8	koam	koam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 flank	nmod:poss
10	flank	flank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wid	nsubj
11	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 koam	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wid	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 holler	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 holler	compound
16	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tongue	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 holler	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 koam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sorter in a quote		Hunter		tree rules
2	koam in a quote	present	Den and sorter		tree rules
3	wi in a quote	past	Hunter's flank	Hunter's tongue and en holler	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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