Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 29

Charley laughed, and said he would let the old man off if he would treat to a watermelon.

Who acts: Charley · What happens: laugh, say, let, treat · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Charley), 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	Charley	Charley	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	16 treat	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 treat	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 treat	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 treat	aux
16	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 watermelon	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 watermelon	det
19	watermelon	watermelon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 treat	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Charley			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Charley not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	would	Charley	the old man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	treat a condition, not said to happen	would	Charley		to a watermelon	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to watermelon=be'

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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