Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 43
Uncle Remus shuffled around in an awkward, embarrassed way, scratched his head, and looked uncomfortable.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: shuffle around, scratch, look · To what, where: awkward embarrassed way, head
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 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shuffled | nsubj |
| 2 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | shuffled | shuffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 shuffled | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 7 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 awkward | punct |
| 9 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shuffled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scratched | punct |
| 12 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuffled | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratched | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuffled | conj |
| 18 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shuffled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shuffle around | past | Uncle | a awkward embarrassed way | around property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | scratch | past | Uncle not said here | Uncle's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Uncle not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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