Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 11

She remembered a name her brother had often used in his letters, and, with a woman's tact, she held out her hand, and said:

Who acts: Vermont, name, brother · What happens: remember, use, hold out, say, letter · To what, where: name, brother, letters, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vermont, name, brother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 used	aux
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 used	advmod
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 name	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 letters	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 letters	nmod:poss
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tact	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tact	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tact	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 tact	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tact	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 woman	case
20	tact	tact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 held	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 held	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	parataxis
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Vermont	a name		with a woman's tact	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	use	past · perfect · passive	a name not said here	Vermont's brother	brother's letters	often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	hold out	past	Vermont	Vermont's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	letter		brother				nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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