Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 1

UNCLE Remus met a police officer recently.

Who acts: UNCLE · What happens: meet · To what, where: police officer

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. 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 met	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 UNCLE	flat
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 officer	det
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 officer	compound
6	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
7	recently	recently	ADV	_	3 met	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	UNCLE	a police officer				recently property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Co-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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