Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 106

Making the most of his opportunity, he gathered one of the pumpkins in his arms and went on his way.

Who acts: negro · What happens: make, gather, go · To what, where: most, one, way

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 (negro), 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	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 gathered	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 most	det
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Making	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 opportunity	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 opportunity	nmod:poss
6	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 most	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Making	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gathered	nsubj
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 gathered	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 pumpkins	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pumpkins	det
13	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pumpkins	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gathered	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	gerund	negro not said here	the most of negro's opportunity		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset most=Product
2	gather	past	negro	one of the pumpkins in negro's arms		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	go	past	negro not said here		negro's way	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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