Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 41

He mout, an den agin he moutent.

Who acts: den agin · What happens: moutent

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den agin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mout	nsubj
2	mout	mout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moutent	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 agin	det
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agin	compound
6	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moutent	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 moutent	nsubj
8	moutent	moutent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mout	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mout	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moutent		a den agin						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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