Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 38
The Charleston negro passed on just as a police-man' came up.
Who acts: Charleston negro · What happens: pass on, come up · To what, where: Charleston negro
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 negro | det |
| 2 | Charleston | Charleston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 negro | compound |
| 3 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 negro | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 passed | compound:prt |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 man | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 police | punct |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | participle | the Charleston negro not said here | as a police man | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | the Charleston negro | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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