Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 13

"No," answered Uncle Remus, mopping his benign features with a very large and very red bandana. "

Who acts: Uncle Remus, dat · What happens: answer, mop, feature · To what, where: benign features

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. 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, dat), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Remus	compound
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mopping	punct
9	mopping	mop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 features	nmod:poss
11	benign	benign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 features	amod
12	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mopping	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	20 bandana	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bandana	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 large	advmod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bandana	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 red	cc
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 red	advmod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 large	conj
20	bandana	bandana	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mopping	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Uncle Remus			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mop	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here	dat's benign features	with a large bandana	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feature=Initial_Location
3	feature		dat			nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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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