Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 1

A CHARLESTON negro who was in Atlanta on the Fourth of July made a mistake.

Who acts: CHARLESTON negro · What happens: be, make · To what, where: Atlanta, mistake

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CHARLESTON negro), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 negro	det
2	CHARLESTON	CHARLESTON	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 negro	compound
3	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Atlanta	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Atlanta	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Atlanta	case
7	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 negro	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Fourth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fourth	det
10	Fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Atlanta	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 July	case
12	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fourth	nmod
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mistake	det
15	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a CHARLESTON negro			Atlanta		on the Fourth of July	tree rules
2	make	past	a CHARLESTON negro	a mistake					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

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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