Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 3

A gentleman from Savannah had been spending the summer in the mountains of north Georgia, and found it convenient to take along a body-servant.

Who acts: gentleman, difference · What happens: spend, find, take · To what, where: mountains, difference

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, difference), 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	2 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spending	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Savannah	case
4	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gentleman	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spending	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 spending	aux
7	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 summer	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spending	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spending	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Georgia	case
14	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Georgia	amod
15	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mountains	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spending	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	obj
20	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 found	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 convenient	xcomp
23	along	along	ADP	_	27 servant	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 servant	det
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 servant	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 body	punct
27	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spending	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect · progressive	a gentleman from Savannah		the mountains of north Georgia	summer		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	a gentleman from Savannah not said here	difference			convenient property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	difference not said here				along a body servant	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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