Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 2

He saw Uncle Remus edging his way through the crowd, and thought he knew him.

Who acts: negro, Uncle Remus · What happens: see, edge, think, know · To what, where: Uncle Remus, way, crowd, Remus · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (negro, Uncle Remus), 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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	edging	edge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 saw	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 edging	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 crowd	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crowd	det
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 edging	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	negro	Uncle Remus		tree rules
2	edge	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here	negro's way	the crowd	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination
3	think speech: other	past				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	know	past	negro	Remus		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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