Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 23

"Uncle Remus, you haven't told me how you knew me in that great crowd."

Who acts: you · What happens: not tell, know · To what, where: Uncle Remus, me, great crowd · 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), 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	_	3 Remus	punct
2	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Remus	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 told	advmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 knew	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 knew	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 crowd	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 crowd	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 crowd	amod
17	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knew	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Uncle Remus	me				tree rules
2	know in a quote	past	you	me		that great crowd			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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