Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 16

"Maul who?" exclaimed Uncle Remus, indignantly. "

Who acts: Maul · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: Uncle Remus

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 (Maul), 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	_	2 Maul	punct
2	Maul	Maul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 Maul	acl:relcl
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Maul	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Maul	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 indignantly	punct
10	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	_	6 exclaimed	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Maul	Uncle Remus				indignantly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remus=Topic

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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