Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 26

He let a yell like forty yaller cats a courtin', an' den he broke.

Who acts: riz · What happens: let, break · To what, where: yell, den

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riz), 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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 yell	det
4	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 cats	case
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cats	nummod
7	yaller	yaller	X	Foreign=Yes	8 cats	nmod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 courtin	det
10	courtin	courtin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cats	conj
11	',	',	PUNCT	_	14 den	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 den	det
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 den	punct
14	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 courtin	appos
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 den	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	riz	a yell				like forty cats yaller and a courtin	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme
2	break	past	riz	a den not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer den=Patient

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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