Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 1

"Yer come Uncle Remus," said a well-dressed negro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James's bank recently, talking to a crowd of barbers. "

Who acts: Yer, dressed negro · What happens: uncle, say, dress, stand, talk · To what, where: Remus, sidewalk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yer, dressed negro), 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	_	4 Uncle	punct
2	Yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 Uncle	nsubj
3	come	come	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 Uncle	aux
4	Uncle	uncle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Uncle	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Uncle	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 negro	det
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 dressed	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
12	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 negro	amod
13	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 standing	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 standing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 standing	aux
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 negro	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 sidewalk	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sidewalk	det
20	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	obl
21	near	near	ADP	_	24 bank	case
22	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bank	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 James	case
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sidewalk	nmod
25	recently	recently	ADV	_	17 standing	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talking	punct
27	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 standing	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 crowd	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 crowd	det
30	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 talking	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 barbers	case
32	barbers	barber	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crowd	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	uncle in a quote		Yer	Remus			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a dressed negro				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dress	participle				well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past · progressive	a dressed negro		the sidewalk near James's bank	recently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sidewalk=Location
5	talk	gerund	a dressed negro not said here			to a crowd of barbers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to crowd=Co-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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