Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 5

Espying Uncle Remus languidly sunning himself on a corner, the Savannah darkey approached.

Who acts: Savannah darkey · What happens: espy, sun, approach · To what, where: Uncle Remus, Remus, corner

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 darkey), 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	Espying	espy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 approached	advcl
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Espying	obj
4	languidly	languidly	ADV	_	1 Espying	advmod
5	sunning	sun	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Espying	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 sunning	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 corner	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sunning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Espying	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 darkey	det
12	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 darkey	compound
13	darkey	darkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approached	nsubj
14	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	espy	gerund	the Savannah darkey not said here	Uncle Remus		languidly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remus=Stimulus
2	sun	gerund	the Savannah darkey not said here	Remus	a corner		tree rules
3	approach	past	the Savannah darkey				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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