Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 23

Then the old man blew the ashes from a smoking yam, and proceeded to remove the peeling.

Who acts: old man · What happens: blow, proceed, remove · To what, where: ashes, peeling

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 blew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blew	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 yam	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 yam	det
10	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yam	compound
11	yam	yam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proceeded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proceeded	cc
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blew	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 remove	mark
16	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proceeded	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 peeling	det
18	peeling	peeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remove	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the old man	the ashes	then	from a smoking yam	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ash=Patient from yam=Co-Patient
2	proceed	past	the old man not said here				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	remove	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the peeling			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peeling=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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