Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 13
"When was that, Uncle Remus?"
What happens: be · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 that | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Remus | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that | tree rules |
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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