Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 2

All over the floor long strips of "wahoo" bark were spread, and these the old man was weaving into horse-collars.

Who acts: old man · What happens: spread, weave · To what, where: long strips, horse collars

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	All	all	ADV	_	6 strips	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	obl
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strips	amod
6	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spread	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 bark	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 wahoo	punct
9	wahoo	wahoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bark	compound
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 wahoo	punct
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strips	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	aux:pass
13	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weaving	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weaving	cc
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 man	det
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weaving	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 weaving	aux
21	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 spread	advcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 collars	case
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 collars	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 horse	punct
25	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 weaving	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive		long strips of wahoo bark					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	weave	past · progressive	this old man			horse collars			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into collar=Destination

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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