Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 5
"How was that, Uncle Remus?" asked a gentleman standing near.
Who acts: Uncle Remus, gentleman · What happens: be, ask, stand · To what, where: that, gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 Remus, gentleman), 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 | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 that | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Remus | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gentleman | det |
| 12 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gentleman | acl |
| 14 | near | near | ADV | _ | 13 standing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Uncle Remus | a gentleman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a gentleman not said here | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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