Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 23

There were various exclamations of assent, and the old man went on his way singing, "Don't you Grieve Atter Me."

Who acts: various exclamations, old man, way, you · What happens: be, go, sing, not grieve, exclaim · To what, where: way, Atter Me, assent · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (various exclamations, old man, way, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 exclamations	amod
4	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 assent	case
6	assent	assent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exclamations	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
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	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 way	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Grieve	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Grieve	punct
19	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 Grieve	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 Grieve	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 Grieve	nsubj
22	Grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 singing	conj
23	Atter	Atter	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Me	compound
24	Me	Me	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Grieve	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	various exclamations of assent		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the old man		man's way	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	sing speech: express	gerund	man's way not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not grieve in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you	Atter Me		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus me=Experiencer
5	exclaim			assent		nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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