Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 1

"ONE time," said Uncle Remus, whetting his knife slowly and thoughtfully on the palm of his hand, and gazing reflectively in the fire--"one time Brer Wolf--"

Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: say, whet, gaze · To what, where: knife, palm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus), 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	_	3 time	punct
2	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 time	nummod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whetting	punct
10	whetting	whet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knife	nmod:poss
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whetting	obj
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 whetting	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thoughtfully	cc
15	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	13 slowly	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 palm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palm	det
18	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whetting	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 palm	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gazing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gazing	cc
24	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
25	reflectively	reflectively	ADV	_	24 gazing	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gazing	obl
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 time	nummod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gazing	obl
33	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 time	appos
34	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Brer	flat
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Uncle Remus					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	whet	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here	Remus's knife	the palm of Remus's hand		slowly property	tree rules
3	gaze	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here			time	in the fire; reflectively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fire=Theme

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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