Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 27

Den he spit in his han's, en give 'er a big swing en down she come--kerblap!

Who acts: ai, dat · What happens: spit, come · To what, where: han, kerblap

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, dat), 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 spit	compound
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spit	nsubj
3	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 han	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	3 spit	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 han	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	compound
10	give	give	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 han	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
12	er	er	ADP	_	16 en	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 en	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 en	amod
15	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 en	compound
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spit	obl
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 come	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spit	advcl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 kerblap	punct
21	kerblap	kerblap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 spit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	ai			ai's han		er a big swing en	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	infinitive	dat	kerblap					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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