Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 8

Finally he spoke, but not as addressing himself to the little boy.

Who acts: man · What happens: speak, not address · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	3 spoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 addressing	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 addressing	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 addressing	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 addressing	mark
8	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spoke	advcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 addressing	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 addressing	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man					finally property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not address	gerund	man not said here	man				to the little boy	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination

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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