Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 35

"'Spit in yo' han's en tug it en toll it, En git behime it, en push it, en pole it; Spit in yo' han's en r'ar back en roll it.'

Who acts: singin, Spit, han · What happens: en, toll, behime, push, pole, roll · To what, where: en tug, singin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singin, Spit, han), 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	_	3 Spit	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Spit	punct
3	Spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 push	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 yo	case
5	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Spit	nmod
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 tug	punct
7	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tug	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 han	case
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tug	compound
10	tug	tug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yo	appos
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 en	nsubj
12	en	en	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tug	acl:relcl
13	toll	toll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 en	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 toll	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 behime	punct
16	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 behime	compound
17	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 behime	compound
18	behime	behime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Spit	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 behime	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Spit	conj
22	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 push	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pole	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pole	compound
26	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 push	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pole	nsubj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 Spit	punct
29	Spit	Spit	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 roll	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 yo	case
31	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Spit	nmod
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 r'ar	punct
33	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 en	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 han	case
35	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 r'ar	compound
36	r'ar	r'ar	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 roll	nsubj
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 r'ar	advmod
38	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 roll	compound
39	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 push	parataxis
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 push	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 push	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 push	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	en in a quote	past	singin	han's en tug not said here	tree rules
2	toll in a quote	infinitive	singin not said here	singin	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	behime in a quote		singin		tree rules
4	push in a quote	present	Spit in yo and En git behime and en	singin	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme it=Destination
5	pole in a quote		singin		tree rules
6	roll in a quote		Spit in yo		tree rules
7	tug in a quote		han		nom tug «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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