Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 14

He was in thorough sympathy with all the whims and humors of the old man, and his capacity for enjoying them was large enough to include even those he could not understand.

Who acts: boy, capacity · What happens: be, enjoy, include, not understand, humor · To what, where: thorough sympathy, humors, those, old man

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, capacity), 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	5 sympathy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sympathy	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sympathy	case
4	thorough	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sympathy	amod
5	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 whims	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 whims	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whims	det
9	whims	whim	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sympathy	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 humors	cc
11	humors	humor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 whims	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 humors	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 large	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 large	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 capacity	nmod:poss
19	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 large	nsubj
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 enjoying	mark
21	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 capacity	acl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 enjoying	obj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 large	cop
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sympathy	amod
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 large	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 include	mark
27	include	include	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 large	advcl
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 those	advmod
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 include	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 understand	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 understand	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 understand	advmod
33	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 those	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sympathy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy		thorough sympathy	with all whims and humors of the old man	tree rules
2	enjoy	gerund	boy's capacity not said here	humors = humor			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	is	past	boy's capacity			enough, large property	tree rules
4	include	to-infinitive	boy's capacity not said here	those			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	not understand	could	boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	humor			the old man			nom humor «communication transitive»: of=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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