Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 8
Turning, Miss Theodosia saw at her side a tall, gray-haired negro.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: turn, see · To what, where: tall haired negro, side
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 (Miss), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | Theodosia | Theodosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Miss | flat |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 negro | det |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 negro | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tall | punct |
| 12 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 haired | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 gray | punct |
| 14 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 negro | amod |
| 15 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Miss not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Miss | a tall haired negro | Vermont's side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer negro=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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