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title: The cotia finally jumps from the jaguar and takes refuge in a hole,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The cotia finally jumps from the jaguar and takes refuge in a hole, where an owl is set to watch him, but he flings sand in the owl's eyes and escapes. Who acts: cotia, owl, jaguar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 51

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The cotia finally jumps from the jaguar and takes refuge in a hole, where an owl is set to watch him, but he flings sand in the owl's eyes and escapes.

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**Who acts:** cotia, owl, jaguar · **What happens:** jump, take, be, watch, fling · **To what, where:** refuge, hole, jaguar, sand, eyes

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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, owl, 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:pg2306:1:51
# text = The cotia finally jumps from the jaguar and takes refuge in a hole, where an owl is set to watch him, but he flings sand in the owl's eyes and escapes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cotia	cotia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flings	fling	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	escapes	escape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | present | the cotia |  |  |  |  | from the jaguar; finally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from jaguar=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | present | the cotia *not said here* | refuge |  | a hole |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in hole=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | a owl |  |  |  |  | set *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a owl *not said here* | jaguar |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **fling** | present | jaguar | sand |  | the owl's eyes and escapes |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sand=Theme in eye=Destination |

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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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