Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 1

WHEN Uncle Remus went down to the passenger depot one morning recently, the first sight that caught his eye was an old negro man, a woman, and two children sitting in the shade near the door of the baggage-room.

Who acts: Remus, first sight, two children · What happens: uncle, go down, catch, be, sit · To what, where: eye, old negro man, shade

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remus, first sight, two children), 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	WHEN	when	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Uncle	aux
2	Uncle	uncle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Uncle	ccomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 depot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 depot	det
8	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depot	compound
9	depot	depot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 morning	nummod
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
12	recently	recently	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sight	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sight	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 sight	amod
16	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 caught	nsubj
18	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sight	acl:relcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eye	nmod:poss
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caught	obj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
24	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	compound
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	vocative
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sitting	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 children	nummod
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sitting	nsubj
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Uncle	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 shade	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shade	det
36	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	obl
37	near	near	ADP	_	39 door	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 door	det
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 room	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 room	det
42	baggage	baggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 room	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 baggage	punct
44	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 door	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Uncle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	uncle							tree rules
2	go down	past	Remus			morning	to the passenger depot; down, recently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	catch	past	the first sight	Remus's eye				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	is a	past	the first sight	a old negro man			a woman vocative	tree rules
5	sit	gerund	two children		the shade		near the door of the baggage room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location

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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