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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 60

"Now den, honey, you take dis yer w'ip," continued the old man, twining the leather thong around the little boy's neck, "en scamper up ter de big 'ouse en tell Miss Sally fer ter gin you some un it de nex' time she fine yo' tracks in de sugar-bar'l."

Who acts: you, ouse en, un, nex time · What happens: take, continue, twine, tell, nex, yo · To what, where: den, old man, leather thong, neck, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, ouse en, un, nex time), 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

punctadvmodoblpunctconjpunctnsubjobjamodconjpunctpunctparataxisdetamodobjpunctadvcldetcompoundobjcasedetamodnmod:posscaseoblpunctpunctcompoundoblcompound:prtconjflat:foreignamodpunctcompoundnsubjconjcompoundflatcompoundcompoundnmod:desciobjdetnsubjnsubjcompoundcompoundpunctnsubjnsubjamodccomppunctconjcaseamodcompoundpunctnmodpunctpunctroot"PUNCTNowADVdenNOUN,PUNCThoneyNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONtakeVERBdisNOUNyerADJw'ipNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTcontinuedVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUN,PUNCTtwiningVERBtheDETleatherNOUNthongNOUNaroundADPtheDETlittleADJboyNOUN'sPARTneckNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTenNOUNscamperNOUNupADPterXdeXbigADJ'PUNCTouseNOUNenNOUNtellVERBMissPROPNSallyPROPNferNOUNterNOUNginNOUNyouPRONsomeDETunNOUNitPRONdeXnexNOUN'PUNCTtimeNOUNshePRONfineADJyoNOUN'PUNCTtracksNOUNinADPdeADJsugarNOUN-PUNCTbar'lNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 denpunct
2NownowADVPronType=Dem3 denadvmod
3dendenNOUNNumber=Sing8 takeobl
4,,PUNCT_5 honeypunct
5honeyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing3 denconj
6,,PUNCT_3 denpunct
7youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs8 takensubj
8taketakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
9disdisNOUNNumber=Sing8 takeobj
10yeryADJDegree=Cmp11 w'ipamod
11w'ipw'ipNOUNNumber=Sing9 disconj
12,,PUNCT_8 takepunct
13""PUNCT_14 continuedpunct
14continuedcontinueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 takeparataxis
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 mandet
16oldoldADJDegree=Pos17 manamod
17manmanNOUNNumber=Sing14 continuedobj
18,,PUNCT_19 twiningpunct
19twiningtwineVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 continuedadvcl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 thongdet
21leatherleatherNOUNNumber=Sing22 thongcompound
22thongthongNOUNNumber=Sing19 twiningobj
23aroundaroundADP_28 neckcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 boydet
25littlelittleADJDegree=Pos26 boyamod
26boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing28 necknmod:poss
27's'sPART_26 boycase
28neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing19 twiningobl
29,,PUNCT_32 scamperpunct
30""PUNCT_32 scamperpunct
31enenNOUNNumber=Sing32 scampercompound
32scamperscamperNOUNNumber=Sing19 twiningobl
33upupADP_32 scampercompound:prt
34terterXForeign=Yes32 scamperconj
35dedeXForeign=Yes34 terflat:foreign
36bigbigADJDegree=Pos34 teramod
37''PUNCT_40 tellpunct
38ouseouseNOUNNumber=Sing39 encompound
39enenNOUNNumber=Plur40 tellnsubj
40telltellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 bigconj
41MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing45 gincompound
42SallySallyPROPNNumber=Sing41 Missflat
43ferferNOUNNumber=Sing44 tercompound
44terterNOUNNumber=Sing45 gincompound
45ginginNOUNNumber=Sing46 younmod:desc
46youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs40 telliobj
47somesomeDETPronType=Ind48 undet
48ununNOUNNumber=Sing51 nexnsubj
49ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs51 nexnsubj
50dedeXForeign=Yes51 nexcompound
51nexnexNOUNNumber=Sing53 timecompound
52''PUNCT_51 nexpunct
53timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing56 yonsubj
54sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs56 yonsubj
55finefineADJDegree=Pos56 yoamod
56yoyoNOUNNumber=Sing40 tellccomp
57''PUNCT_56 yopunct
58trackstrackNOUNNumber=Plur56 yoconj
59ininADP_63 bar'lcase
60dedeADJDegree=Pos63 bar'lamod
61sugarsugarNOUNNumber=Sing63 bar'lcompound
62--PUNCT_61 sugarpunct
63bar'lbar'lNOUNNumber=Sing58 tracksnmod
64..PUNCT_8 takepunct
65""PUNCT_8 takepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take in a quotepresentyouden and honeyvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent dis=Theme clause=Attribute
2continuepastthe old manvn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3twinegerundthe leather thongthe little boy's necken scamper oblvn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thong=Theme around neck=Destination
4tell speech: assert in a quotepresentouse enyouvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5nex in a quotesome untree rules
6yo in a quotenex timetree 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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