Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 129

"Do you mean to say," exclaimed Miss Theodosia, indignantly, "that you shot the Union soldier, when you knew he was fighting for your freedom?"

Who acts: you, Miss, en · What happens: mean, say, exclaim, shoot, know, fight · To what, where: that · 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 (you, Miss, en), 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	_	4 mean	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	conj
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
11	Theodosia	Theodosia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Miss	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 indignantly	punct
13	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	_	9 exclaimed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shot	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 shot	punct
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 shot	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 shot	nsubj
18	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 exclaimed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soldier	det
20	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 soldier	compound
21	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shot	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 knew	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shot	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fighting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fighting	aux
28	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 knew	ccomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 freedom	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 freedom	nmod:poss
31	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fighting	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 fighting	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	exclaim speech: express	past	Miss		indignantly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	shoot in a quote	past	you	that		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination soldier=Theme
5	know in a quote	past	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	fight in a quote	past · progressive	en		for your freedom	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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