Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 30

Den he knock agin--blam! blam!

Who acts: Den · What happens: knock, blam · To what, where: agin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knock	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knock	nsubj
3	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knock	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 blam	punct
6	blam	blam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knock	parataxis
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knock	punct
8	blam	blam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knock	parataxis
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	knock	infinitive	Den	agin	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent agin=Patient
2	blam	present			tree rules
3	blam	present			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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