Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 43

He then goes into the wood, midway between them both, and gives the vine a shake as a signal for the pulling to begin.

Who acts: tortoise · What happens: go, give, begin · To what, where: wood, vine

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 (tortoise), 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	3 goes	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 midway	punct
8	midway	midway	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	conj
9	between	between	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 midway	nmod
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gives	cc
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vine	det
16	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shake	det
18	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 signal	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 signal	det
21	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 pulling	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pulling	det
24	pulling	pulling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 signal	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 begin	mark
26	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gives	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	tortoise		the wood and midway between wood	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	give	present	tortoise not said here	the vine			as a signal for the pulling	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent vine=Recipient shake=Theme
3	begin	to-infinitive	tortoise not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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