Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 17
"Dem's our bedcloze," the old negro explained, noticing the glance of Uncle Remus. "
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: explain, notice, glance · To what, where: old negro, glance
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bedcloze | punct |
| 2 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bedcloze | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Dem | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bedcloze | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bedcloze | bedcloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 negro | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 negro | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 negro | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 negro | amod |
| 10 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bedcloze | appos |
| 11 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 negro | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 noticing | punct |
| 13 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 explained | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 glance | det |
| 15 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Remus | case |
| 17 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Remus | compound |
| 18 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 glance | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bedcloze | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bedcloze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | participle | the old negro not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | notice | gerund | the glance of Uncle Remus | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer glance=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | glance | Uncle Remus | nom glance «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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