Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 11

"Go 'way, honey!" responded the old man, in an impressive tone. "

Who acts: you, old man · What happens: go, respond · To what, where: way, impressive tone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honey	punct
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	vocative
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
9	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 responded	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tone	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 tone	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tone	det
16	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tone	amod
17	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here	way		a impressive tone		honey vocative	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tone=Location
2	respond speech: other	past	the old man						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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