Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 2

For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book.

Who acts: I, encore · What happens: rekindle, expect, respond, mark · To what, where: lights, I, formal way, fifteenth anniversary

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, encore), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 event	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 event	det
3	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rekindled	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lights	det
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rekindled	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rekindled	aux:pass
7	to	to	PART	_	9 rekindled	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 rekindled	aux:pass
9	rekindled	rekindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 expected	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 expected	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 expected	nsubj:pass
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 expected	aux:pass
14	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 rekindled	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 respond	mark
16	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 expected	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 way	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 way	det
19	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 respond	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 encore	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 encore	det
23	encore	encore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 respond	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 marks	nsubj
25	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 encore	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 anniversary	det
27	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anniversary	amod
28	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marks	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 book	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 book	det
31	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 anniversary	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rekindled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rekindle	present · passive		the lights		for this event	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	expect	present · passive		I			tree rules
3	respond speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		some formal way	to a encore	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to encore=Theme
4	mark	present	a encore	the fifteenth anniversary of the book			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent anniversary=Destination

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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