Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 33
While they were thus engaged, Uncle Remus came around the corner of the house, talking to himself.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: engage, come, talk · To what, where: outlines, corner, Uncle
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 (Uncle), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 engaged | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 engaged | advmod |
| 5 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Uncle | flat |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 corner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 talking | punct |
| 17 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 talking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | outlines = outline | thus property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Uncle | the corner of the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around corner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | Uncle not said here | Uncle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-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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