Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 24

Uncle Remus had conquered him and he had conquered Uncle Remus in pretty much the same way before.

Who acts: Uncle · What happens: conquer · To what, where: boy, Uncle Remus, same way

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. 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	4 conquered	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conquered	aux
4	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 conquered	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 conquered	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 conquered	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 conquered	aux
9	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 conquered	conj
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conquered	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conquered	obl
18	before	before	ADV	_	9 conquered	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 conquered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	past · perfect	Uncle	boy					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	conquer	past · perfect	Uncle	Uncle Remus		the same way		before property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Patient

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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