Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 25
Den he draw back en down he come ag'in--blam!
Who acts: ai · What happens: draw back, come, blam · To what, where: en, ag'in
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ai), 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 | 3 draw | compound |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 draw | advmod |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 draw | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 draw | advcl |
| 9 | ag'in | ag'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 blam | punct |
| 11 | blam | blam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 draw | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | present | ai | en | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | ai | ag'in | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ag'in=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blam | present | ai not said here | tree 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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