Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 1

As Uncle Remus came up Whitehall Street recently, he met a little colored boy carrying a slate and a number of books.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, Remus, little colored boy · What happens: come up, meet, carry · To what, where: Whitehall Street, little colored boy, slate

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. 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, Remus, little colored boy), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Remus	compound
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 met	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 Street	case
6	Whitehall	Whitehall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Street	compound
7	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	recently	recently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
14	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 boy	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slate	det
18	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carrying	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 number	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 number	det
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slate	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 books	case
23	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 number	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Uncle Remus	Whitehall Street	recently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme
2	meet	past	Remus	a little colored boy		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent
3	carry	gerund	a little colored boy not said here	a slate and a number of books		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slate=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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