Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 6

The old negro, who seemed to be rather suspicious, looked at Uncle Remus coolly, and appeared to be considering whether he should make any reply.

Who acts: old negro, negro · What happens: seem, be, look, appear, consider, make · To what, where: reply

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 (old negro, 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	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 negro	amod
3	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 suspicious	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 suspicious	cop
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 suspicious	advmod
10	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seemed	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Remus	case
14	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Remus	compound
15	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
16	coolly	coolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 appeared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 appeared	cc
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 considering	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 considering	aux
22	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 appeared	advcl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 considering	ccomp
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 reply	det
28	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the old negro			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the old negro not said here		suspicious property	tree rules
3	look	past	the old negro not said here		at Uncle Remus; coolly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at remus=Theme
4	appear	past	the old negro not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	consider	to-infinitive · progressive	the old negro not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make	should	negro	any reply		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product

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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