Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 4

"What are you trying to give us now?" inquired one of the young men, in a bilious tone.

Who acts: you, trying · What happens: try, give, inquire · To what, where: us, one, bilious tone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, trying), 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	_	5 trying	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 trying	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 trying	nsubj
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 inquired	csubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 give	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct
12	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 inquired	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 men	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tone	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 tone	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tone	det
21	bilious	bilious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tone	amod
22	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inquired	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	try in a quote	present · progressive	you					tree rules
2	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		us		now	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	inquire speech: other	past	trying	one of the young men		a bilious tone		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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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