Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 15

Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a red snapper all waxed and knotted.

Who acts: man, red snapper · What happens: find, draw, plait, wax, knot · To what, where: plaited whip thong

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, red snapper), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drew	cc
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	6 drew	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thong	det
9	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	10 plaited	advmod
10	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thong	amod
11	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thong	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 whip	punct
13	thong	thong	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obl:unmarked
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 waxed	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 snapper	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snapper	amod
17	snapper	snapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waxed	nsubj
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 waxed	advmod
19	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thong	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knotted	cc
21	knotted	knot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waxed	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	man		finally property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	draw	past	man not said here	a plaited whip thong	forth property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	plait	participle			nicely property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wax	past	a red snapper	a plaited whip thong not said here	all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thong=Theme
5	knot	past	a red snapper not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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