Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 4
Several others bantered the old man, but he appeared to be in a good humor.
Who acts: Several others, man · What happens: banter, appear, be · To what, where: old man, good humor
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 (Several others, man), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 others | amod |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bantered | nsubj |
| 3 | bantered | banter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bantered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 appeared | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bantered | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 humor | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 humor | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 humor | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 humor | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 humor | amod |
| 16 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bantered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banter | past | Several others | the old man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | man not said here | a good humor | 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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