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title: The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tel… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tells the deer that he can make a riding-horse of the jaguar. Who acts: cotia, jaguar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 48

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The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tells the deer that he can make a riding-horse of the jaguar.

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**Who acts:** cotia, jaguar · **What happens:** be, tell, make · **To what, where:** love, deer, riding horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cotia, jaguar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:1:48
# text = The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tells the deer that he can make a riding-horse of the jaguar.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cotia	cotia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	species	species	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rodent	rodent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the cotia |  |  | love |  | with horse | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | jaguar | the deer |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deer=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | can | jaguar | a riding horse of the jaguar |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product |

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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.

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**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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