Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 2
Uncle Remus had a board across his lap, and, armed with a mallet and a shoe-knife, was engaged in making shoe-pegs.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: have, engage, make · To what, where: board, lap, armed, shoe pegs
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle), 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 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 board | det |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 lap | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lap | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 engaged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 engaged | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 armed | punct |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 mallet | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mallet | det |
| 15 | mallet | mallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 armed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knife | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knife | det |
| 18 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knife | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoe | punct |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mallet | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 armed | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 engaged | aux:pass |
| 23 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 making | mark |
| 25 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 engaged | advcl |
| 26 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pegs | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 shoe | punct |
| 28 | pegs | peg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 making | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Uncle | a board | Uncle's lap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient | |||
| 2 | engage | past · passive | armed | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | shoe pegs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peg=Product |
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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