Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 3

"Well, Uncle Remus, they called me," said the little boy, in a penitent tone. '

Who acts: axe, little boy · What happens: call, say · To what, where: little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (axe, little boy), 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	_	8 called	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 called	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Remus	compound
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Well	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 called	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tone	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 tone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tone	det
19	penitent	penitent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tone	compound
20	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 tone	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 tone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	past	axe		the little boy = boy				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the little boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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