Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 14
"De ole man's holler'n now sho'," said one of the listeners, gazing with admiration on the venerable old darkey.
Who acts: holler'n · What happens: say, gaze · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (holler'n), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 holler'n | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holler'n | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | holler'n | holler'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sho | advmod |
| 8 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 6 holler'n | nmod |
| 9 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 6 holler'n | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 holler'n | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 listeners | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 listeners | det |
| 15 | listeners | listener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gazing | punct |
| 17 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 admiration | case |
| 19 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gazing | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 darkey | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 darkey | det |
| 22 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 darkey | amod |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 darkey | amod |
| 24 | darkey | darkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gazing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | De ole man's holler'n sho | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | De ole man's holler'n sho not said here | with admiration; on the venerable old darkey | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on darkey=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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