Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 8

He knew by experience that he had done something which failed to meet the approval of Uncle Remus, and he tried to remember what it was, so as to frame an excuse; but his memory failed him.

Who acts: man, memory · What happens: know, do, fail, not meet, try, remember · To what, where: something, approval, frame excuse, man, Uncle Remus

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 (man, memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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