Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 1

I. Uncle Remus initiates the Little Boy II.

Who acts: I. · What happens: initiate · To what, where: Little Boy

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I.), 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	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 initiates	nsubj
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 I.	conj
4	initiates	initiate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Boy	det
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Boy	amod
7	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 initiates	obj
8	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	7 Boy	flat
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 initiates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	initiate	present	I. and Uncle Remus	the Little Boy					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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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