Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 29
Here Uncle Remus held up his damaged hand triumphantly. "
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: hold up, damage · To what, where: damaged hand
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 held | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 held | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 9 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 8 hand | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | Uncle | UNCLE's damaged hand | here | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | damage | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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