Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 9
He could think of nothing he had done calculated to stir Uncle Remus's grief.
Who acts: man · What happens: think, do, calculate, stir · To what, where: grief
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 done | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stir | mark |
| 11 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 calculated | xcomp |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 grief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Uncle | flat |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Uncle | case |
| 15 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stir | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | man | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | calculate | participle | man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stir | to-infinitive | man not said here | Uncle's grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=Experiencer |
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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