Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 31

Th'ee times Brer Rabbit jump up en crack his heels tergedder en come down wid de sludge-hammer--ker-blam!--en eve'y time he jump up, he holler out:

Who acts: Th'ee times, den · What happens: jump up, crack, come down, holler out · To what, where: en, heels, eve'y time

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 (Th'ee times, den), 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	Th'ee	Th'ee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 times	compound
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	nsubj
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 jump	nsubj
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Brer	flat
5	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 jump	compound:prt
7	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obj
8	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heels	nmod:poss
10	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crack	obj
11	tergedder	tergedd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 en	amod
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crack	obj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 come	xcomp
16	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hammer	amod
17	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hammer	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sludge	punct
19	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wid	appos
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 ker	punct
21	ker	ker	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hammer	conj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 blam	punct
23	blam	blam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ker	appos
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 blam	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 time	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eve'y	compound
27	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 time	compound
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hammer	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 jump	nsubj
30	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl:relcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 jump	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 holler	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 holler	nsubj
34	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 holler	compound:prt
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump up	infinitive	Th'ee times	en		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory
2	crack	infinitive	Th'ee times not said here	den's heels		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent heel=Patient en=Result
3	come down	present	Th'ee times not said here		down, wid property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	jump up	infinitive	den	eve'y time not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory
5	holler out speech: other		den			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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