Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 1

THE deacon of a colored church met Uncle Remus recently, and, after some uninteresting remarks about the weather, asked:

Who acts: deacon · What happens: meet, ask · To what, where: Uncle Remus

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deacon), 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deacon	det
2	deacon	deacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 church	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 church	det
5	colored	colored	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	compound
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deacon	nmod
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
10	recently	recently	ADV	_	7 met	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	17 remarks	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 remarks	det
16	uninteresting	uninteresting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 remarks	amod
17	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 asked	obl
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 weather	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 weather	det
20	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remarks	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remarks	punct
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the deacon of a colored church	Uncle Remus				recently property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Co-Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	the deacon of a colored church not said here				after some uninteresting remarks about the weather		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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