Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 1
A Jonesboro negro, while waiting for the train to go out, met up with Uncle Remus.
Who acts: Jonesboro negro · What happens: wait, go out, meet up
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jonesboro negro), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 negro | det |
| 2 | Jonesboro | Jonesboro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 negro | compound |
| 3 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | mark |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 negro | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 train | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 train | det |
| 9 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waiting | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 negro | punct |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 met | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Remus | case |
| 17 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Remus | compound |
| 18 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | a Jonesboro negro not said here | for the train | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | a Jonesboro negro not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet up | past | a Jonesboro negro | with Uncle Remus | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with remus=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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