Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 5

He was carrying a huge basket of vegetables.

Who acts: man · What happens: carry · To what, where: huge basket

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carrying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carrying	aux
3	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basket	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 basket	amod
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 vegetables	case
8	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 basket	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carrying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · progressive	man	a huge basket of vegetables					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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