Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 32

The Savannah negro here gave utterance to a loud, contemptuous laugh, and began to fumble somewhat ostentatiously with a big brass watch-chain.

Who acts: Savannah negro · What happens: give, begin, fumble · To what, where: utterance, loud contemptuous laugh

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 (Savannah 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 negro	det
2	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 negro	compound
3	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 negro	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 laugh	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 laugh	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 laugh	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loud	punct
11	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 laugh	amod
12	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fumble	mark
17	fumble	fumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	19 ostentatiously	advmod
19	ostentatiously	ostentatiously	ADV	_	17 fumble	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	26 chain	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chain	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chain	amod
23	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chain	compound
24	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chain	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 watch	punct
26	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fumble	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Savannah negro	utterance	a loud contemptuous laugh		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to laugh=Recipient
2	begin	past	the Savannah negro not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fumble	to-infinitive	the Savannah negro not said here			with a big brass watch chain; ostentatiously property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: 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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