Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 134

She kep' on," continued Uncle Remus, pointing to Mr. Huntingdon, "en now dar he is."

Who acts: des, en · What happens: kep, continue, point, be · To what, where: Uncle Remus, Huntingdon

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 (des, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kep	nsubj
2	kep	kep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 continued	ccomp
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 kep	punct
4	on	on	ADV	_	2 kep	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kep	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 kep	punct
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 continued	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pointing	punct
11	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 continued	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Huntingdon	case
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Huntingdon	nmod:desc
14	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pointing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 en	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 en	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Huntingdon	appos
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 dar	advmod
19	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 en	nmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 is	nsubj
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pointing	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	kep	infinitive	des			tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past		Uncle Remus		tree rules
3	point in a quote	gerund			Huntingdon Mr.	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to huntingdon=Recipient
4	be	present	en			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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