Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 12
Uncle Remus paused and laid his hand upon his stomach as if feeling for something.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: pause, lay, feel · To what, where: hand, stomach
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. 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 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 laid | cc |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 stomach | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 feeling | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 feeling | mark |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 laid | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 something | case |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 feeling | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | Uncle | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | Uncle not said here | Uncle's hand | Uncle's stomach | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon stomach=Destination | |||
| 3 | feel | gerund | Uncle not said here | for something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for something=Theme |
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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