Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 9

Uncle Remus waited awhile to be sure there was to be no other demonstration, and then proceeded:

Who acts: Uncle · What happens: wait, be, proceed · To what, where: other demonstration

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. 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	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 sure	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sure	cop
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waited	advcl
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sure	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	14 demonstration	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 demonstration	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 demonstration	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 demonstration	amod
14	demonstration	demonstration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 proceeded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 proceeded	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 proceeded	advmod
18	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Uncle				awhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here				sure property	tree rules
3	be	past	Uncle not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here	no other demonstration				tree rules
5	proceed	past	Uncle not said here			then		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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