Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 3

"Well, den," continued the old man with unction, "dar's whar my 'membunce gin out, kaze Brer Rabbit did git kotched up wid, en hit cool 'im off like po'in' spring water on one er deze yer biggity fices."

Who acts: den, en · What happens: continue, kotch up, hit · To what, where: old man, cool

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 den	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 unction	case
12	unction	unction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whar	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 whar	punct
15	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whar	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 dar	case
17	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	parataxis
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gin	nmod:poss
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 gin	punct
20	membunce	membunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gin	compound
21	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whar	nmod
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 gin	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kaze	punct
24	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gin	conj
25	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 kaze	appos
26	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Brer	flat
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gin	acl
28	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wid	compound
29	kotched	kotch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 wid	amod
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 kotched	compound:prt
31	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hit	punct
33	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hit	nsubj
34	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wid	acl:relcl
35	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hit	obj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 im	punct
37	im	im	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cool	obl
38	off	off	ADP	_	35 cool	compound:prt
39	like	like	ADP	_	40 po'in	case
40	po'in	po'in	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hit	obl
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 water	punct
42	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 water	compound
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 po'in	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 deze	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 deze	nummod
46	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 deze	compound
47	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hit	obl
48	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 fices	amod
49	biggity	biggity	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fices	compound
50	fices	fice	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 deze	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 whar	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 whar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	den	the old man	with unction	tree rules
2	kotch up in a quote	participle				tree rules
3	hit in a quote	past	en	cool	like po'in and spring water; on one er deze and yer biggity fices	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cool=Instrument on deze=Patient

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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