Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 25

Uncle Remus stared at the strange darkey curiously for a moment, and then he seized him by the arm.

Who acts: Uncle · What happens: stare, seize · To what, where: Wey

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 (Uncle), 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	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 darkey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 darkey	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 darkey	amod
7	darkey	darkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	obl
8	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	3 stared	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seized	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seized	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 seized	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seized	nsubj
16	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stared	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seized	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 arm	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 arm	det
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seized	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Uncle				moment	at the strange darkey; curiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at darkey=Theme
2	seize	past	Uncle	Wey			then	by the arm	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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