Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 30

Den Brer Rabbit, he grab holt er de sludge, en he lipt up in de a'r en come down on de rock all at de same time--pow!--en de ashes, dey flew'd up so, dey did, dat Brer Fox, he tuck'n had a sneezin' spell, en Miss Meadows en de gals dey up'n koff.

Who acts: den, dey, sneezin · What happens: holt, lipt up, come down, fly, do, dat · To what, where: en, de a'r en, de rock, Brer Fox, spell

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 (den, dey, sneezin), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 holt	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 holt	nsubj
6	grab	grab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 holt	amod
7	holt	holt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	appos
8	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 de	advmod
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sludge	amod
10	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holt	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lipt	nsubj
14	lipt	lipt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 en	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 lipt	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 en	case
17	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 en	compound
18	a'r	a'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 en	compound
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lipt	obl
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 rock	case
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 rock	compound
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
25	all	all	ADV	_	29 time	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	parataxis
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 pow	punct
31	pow	pow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	appos
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 pow	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 ashes	punct
34	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ashes	compound
35	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ashes	compound
36	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 time	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flew	punct
38	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flew	nsubj
39	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 time	parataxis
40	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 up	aux
41	up	up	ADV	_	39 flew	advmod
42	so	so	ADV	_	45 did	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 did	punct
44	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 did	nsubj
45	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 flew	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dat	punct
47	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 come	parataxis
48	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Fox	compound
49	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dat	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 had	punct
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 had	nsubj
52	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	nsubj
53	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dat	advcl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 sneezin	det
55	sneezin	sneezin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 spell	nmod:poss
56	'	's	PART	_	55 sneezin	case
57	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 en	punct
59	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 en	compound
60	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Meadows	compound
61	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	Number=Plur	62 en	compound
62	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 spell	conj
63	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	62 en	flat:foreign
64	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 dey	compound
65	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 en	conj
66	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	_	67 koff	cc
67	koff	koff	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 dey	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	holt		den				tree rules
2	lipt up	past	den	en not said here	de a'r en		tree rules
3	come down	present	Den and en		de rock	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location
4	fly	past	dey				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	past	dey				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dat	infinitive		Brer Fox			tree rules
7	have	past	den	a sneezin's spell and en Meadows en and gals dey up'n koff			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient
8	spell		a sneezin				nom spell «state 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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