Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 24
The old man chuckled, and gave the horses a gentle rap with the whip.
Who acts: old man · What happens: chuckle, give · To what, where: gentle rap, horses
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 (old man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chuckled | nsubj |
| 4 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chuckled | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horses | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rap | det |
| 11 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rap | amod |
| 12 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 whip | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 whip | det |
| 15 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rap | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chuckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuckle | past | the old man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the old man not said here | a gentle rap | the horses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient rap=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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