Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 19

The little boy seemed to be very much interested in this new account of the origin of races, and he made some further inquiries, which elicited from Uncle Remus the following additional particulars:

Who acts: little boy, boy, further inquiries · What happens: seem, be, make, elicit, follow, account · To what, where: new account, further inquiries, Uncle Remus, additional particulars, origin

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: who acts (little boy, boy, further inquiries), 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	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 interested	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 interested	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 interested	advmod
9	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 account	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 account	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 account	amod
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 interested	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 origin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 origin	det
16	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 account	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 races	case
18	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 origin	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 inquiries	det
24	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 inquiries	amod
25	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 elicited	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 elicited	nsubj
28	elicited	elicit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 inquiries	acl:relcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 Remus	case
30	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Remus	compound
31	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 elicited	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 following	det
33	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 elicited	advcl
34	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 particulars	amod
35	particulars	particular	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 following	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the little boy				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here		this new account of the origin of races	interested property	tree rules
3	make	past	boy	some further inquiries			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product
4	elicit	past	some further inquiries		Uncle Remus		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
5	follow	gerund	some further inquiries not said here	additional particulars			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particular=Theme
6	account			the origin of races			nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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