Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 38
Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: pause, draw · To what, where: pound yam, ashes
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 paused | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paused | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 yam | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pound | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 two | punct |
| 11 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yam | compound |
| 12 | yam | yam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 ashes | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ashes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ashes | det |
| 16 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | Uncle | here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Uncle not said here | a pound yam | the ashes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent yam=Theme out ash=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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