Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 3

"I'll sit down, Uncle Remus," said the little boy.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: sit down, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Remus	punct
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sit	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down in a quote	future	the little boy = boy					Uncle Remus vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the little boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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