Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 4

They come and called me, and said they had a pistol and some powder over there."

Who acts: axe, some · What happens: come, call, say, have, powder · To what, where: me, pistol · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (axe, some), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 called	cc
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pistol	det
12	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 powder	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 powder	nsubj
15	powder	powder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
16	over	over	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 powder	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	axe				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past	axe not said here		me		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	axe not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	axe	a pistol			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pistol=Patient
5	powder	present	some			there	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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