Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 51

Den he spit in his han's en draw back en come down on de rock--pow!"

Who acts: den, en · What happens: spit, draw back, come down · To what, where: Den, en, de rock

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. 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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spit	nsubj
3	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	acl:relcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 en	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 han	nmod:poss
6	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 en	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 han	case
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spit	obl
9	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 draw	advmod
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 draw	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 rock	compound
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 pow	punct
18	pow	pow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rock	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 draw	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spit	present	den	Den not said here	den's han's en		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent den=Theme in en=Destination
2	draw back	present	Den				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come down	present	en		de rock and pow	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

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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