Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 63

In the country districts, order was kept on the plantations at night by the knowledge that they were liable to be visited at any moment by the patrols.

Who acts: knowledge, plantations, patrols · What happens: keep, be, visit · To what, where: order, country districts, knowledge

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knowledge, plantations, patrols), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 districts	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 districts	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 districts	compound
4	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 districts	punct
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux:pass
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 plantations	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plantations	det
11	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 knowledge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 knowledge	det
16	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 liable	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liable	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 liable	cop
20	liable	liable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 knowledge	acl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 visited	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 visited	aux:pass
23	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 liable	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 moment	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 visited	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 patrols	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 patrols	det
29	patrols	patrol	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 visited	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · passive	the knowledge	order	the country districts	night	on the plantations	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in district=Location
2	is	past	plantations = plantation	the knowledge not said here			liable property	tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive · passive	the patrols			moment		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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