Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 21

Uncle Remus eyed Charley curiously a moment, while the latter looked quietly at his timber toe.

Who acts: Uncle, latter · What happens: eye, look · To what, where: Charley

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, latter), 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 eyed	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	eyed	eye	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Charley	Charley	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eyed	obj
5	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	7 moment	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 latter	det
11	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eyed	conj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 toe	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 toe	nmod:poss
16	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 toe	compound
17	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eye	past	Uncle	Charley			moment		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer charley=Stimulus
2	look	past	the latter					at Uncle's timber toe; quietly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at toe=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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