Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 72
Here Uncle Remus paused, opened wide his mouth and closed it again in a way that told the whole story.
Who acts: Uncle, way · What happens: pause, open, close, tell · To what, where: mouth, whole story · 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, way), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 paused | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paused | conj |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 6 opened | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 closed | cc |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paused | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 closed | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 closed | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closed | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 story | amod |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | Uncle | here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Uncle not said here | Uncle's mouth | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 3 | close | past | Uncle not said here | mouth | again | in a way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in way=Topic | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | a way | the whole story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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