Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 1

UNCLE REMUS made his appearance recently with his right arm in a sling and his head bandaged to that extent that it looked like the stick made to accompany the Centennial bass-drum.

Who acts: UNCLE, appearance, stick · What happens: make, bandage, look, accompany · To what, where: appearance, sling, extent, stick, Centennial bass drum

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE, appearance, stick), 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	UNCLE	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
2	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 UNCLE	flat
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 appearance	nmod:poss
5	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	recently	recently	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 arm	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arm	nmod:poss
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arm	amod
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sling	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sling	det
13	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arm	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 head	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sling	conj
17	bandaged	bandage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sling	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 extent	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 extent	det
20	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bandaged	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 looked	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 extent	acl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 stick	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stick	det
26	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	obl
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 stick	acl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 accompany	mark
29	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 drum	det
31	Centennial	Centennial	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 drum	compound
32	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drum	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bass	punct
34	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accompany	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	UNCLE	UNCLE's appearance	with UNCLE's right arm in a sling and UNCLE's head; recently property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product
2	bandage	participle		a sling and UNCLE's head not said here	to that extent	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	appearance	that extent not said here	like the stick	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme extent=Attribute
4	make	participle		the stick not said here		tree rules
5	accompany	to-infinitive	the stick not said here	the Centennial bass drum		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=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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