Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 6

The moon, just at its full, cast long, vague, wavering shadows in front of the cabin.

What happens: cast, waver · To what, where: shadows, front

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 moon	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 its	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 its	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 moon	nmod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 its	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cast	punct
9	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 full	conj
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cast	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vague	punct
12	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wavering	punct
14	wavering	waver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cast	advcl
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wavering	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 front	case
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wavering	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cabin	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cabin	det
20	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 front	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	participle						long property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	waver	gerund		shadows		front of the cabin			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shadow=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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