Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 39

The Savannah negro went off after his rice-birds, while Uncle Remus leaned up against the wall and laughed until he was in imminent danger of falling down from sheer exhaustion.

Who acts: Savannah negro, Uncle, imminent danger · What happens: go off, learn up, laugh, be, fall down · To what, where: imminent danger, sheer exhaustion

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, Uncle, imminent danger), 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	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	after	after	ADP	_	10 birds	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 birds	nmod:poss
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 birds	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 rice	punct
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaned	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 leaned	mark
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 leaned	nsubj
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Uncle	flat
15	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 leaned	compound:prt
17	against	against	ADP	_	19 wall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaned	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 danger	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 danger	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 danger	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 danger	case
26	imminent	imminent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 danger	amod
27	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laughed	ccomp
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 falling	mark
29	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 danger	acl
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 falling	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 exhaustion	case
32	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 exhaustion	compound
33	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 falling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the Savannah negro		after deze's rice birds		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	learn up	past	Uncle			against the wall	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	the Savannah negro not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Uncle	imminent danger			tree rules
5	fall down	gerund	imminent danger not said here	sheer exhaustion		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from exhaustion=Initial_Location

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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