Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 6

For a few minutes the old man went on with his work, but with a solemn air altogether unusual.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: go on, work

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, 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 work	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 work	nmod:poss
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unusual	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 unusual	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 air	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 air	det
17	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 air	amod
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 unusual	obl
19	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	20 unusual	advmod
20	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the old man				minute	with man's work	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work		man						nom work «act 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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