Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 1

One evening recently, the lady whom Uncle Remus calls "Miss Sally" missed her little seven-year-old.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, lady · What happens: call, miss · To what, where: lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, lady), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 missed	obl:unmarked
3	recently	recently	ADV	_	2 evening	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lady	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 missed	nsubj
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 calls	obj
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 calls	nsubj
10	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	acl:relcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Sally	punct
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sally	compound
13	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 calls	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Sally	punct
15	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 old	nmod:poss
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 old	amod
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 year	nummod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 seven	punct
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 old	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 year	punct
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 missed	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 missed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Uncle Remus	the lady					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme sally=Result
2	miss	past	the lady				evening		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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