Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 37

Uncle Remus accompanied the speech of the bird with a peculiar whistling sound in his throat, that was a marvelous imitation of a sparrow's chirp, and the little boy clapped his hands with delight, and insisted on a repetition.

Who acts: Uncle, peculiar, that, little boy, sparrow · What happens: accompany, whistle, be, clap, insist, speak · To what, where: speech, sound, throat, marvelous imitation, hands, repetition · 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 (Uncle, peculiar, that, 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	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompanied	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 speech	det
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompanied	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speech	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 peculiar	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 peculiar	det
11	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompanied	obl
12	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 peculiar	acl
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whistling	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 throat	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 throat	nmod:poss
16	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whistling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 imitation	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 imitation	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 imitation	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 imitation	det
21	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 imitation	amod
22	imitation	imitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 peculiar	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 chirp	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sparrow	det
25	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chirp	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 sparrow	case
27	chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 imitation	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clapped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 clapped	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boy	amod
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clapped	nsubj
33	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accompanied	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hands	nmod:poss
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 clapped	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 delight	case
37	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clapped	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 insisted	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 insisted	cc
40	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 clapped	conj
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 repetition	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 repetition	det
43	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 insisted	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accompanied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accompany	past	Uncle	the speech of the bird		with a peculiar and a marvelous imitation	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme
2	whistle	gerund	a peculiar and a marvelous imitation not said here	sound	Uncle's throat		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic
3	is a	past	that	a marvelous imitation		of a sparrow's chirp	tree rules
4	clap	past	the little boy	Uncle's hands		with delight	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
5	insist speech: other	participle	the little boy not said here		a repetition		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	speak			the bird			nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	chirp		a sparrow				nom chirp «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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