Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 1

As Uncle Remus was going down the street recently he was accosted by several acquaintances.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, several acquaintances · What happens: go down, accost · To what, where: street, Remus

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, several acquaintances), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 accosted	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
9	recently	recently	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 accosted	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 accosted	aux:pass
12	accosted	accost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 acquaintances	case
14	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 acquaintances	amod
15	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 accosted	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 accosted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past · progressive	Uncle Remus	the street				recently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient street=Extent
2	accost	past · passive	several acquaintances	Remus					tree rules

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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