Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 30

This was Miss Theodosia's introduction to Uncle Remus.

Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: introduction, Uncle Remus

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 introduction	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 introduction	cop
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 introduction	nmod:poss
4	Theodosia	Theodosia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Miss	flat
5	's	's	PART	_	3 Miss	case
6	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Remus	case
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 introduction	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 introduction	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	Miss's introduction	Uncle Remus				tree rules

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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