Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 14

He was engaged in searching among some scraps of leather under his chair, and kept on talking to the imaginary person.

What happens: engage, keep, talk · To what, where: man, searching

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: 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 engaged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 engaged	aux:pass
3	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 searching	case
5	searching	searching	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engaged	obl
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 scraps	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 scraps	det
8	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 engaged	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 leather	case
10	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scraps	nmod
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 chair	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chair	nmod:poss
13	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engaged	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
16	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 engaged	parataxis
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 talking	mark
18	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 kept	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 person	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 person	det
21	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 person	amod
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talking	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive	man	in searching goal; among some scraps of leather; under man's chair	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in searching=Goal
2	keep	participle			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	talk	gerund		to the imaginary person	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-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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