Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 16

These relations were pretty soon established, to the mutual satisfaction of the parties most interested, and the old man continued his remarks, but this time not at random:

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: establish, continue, satisfy, remark · To what, where: relations, random, remarks, parties

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 (old man, 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 relations	det
2	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 established	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 established	aux:pass
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 established	advmod
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 satisfaction	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 satisfaction	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 satisfaction	det
10	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 satisfaction	amod
11	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 established	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 parties	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parties	det
14	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 satisfaction	nmod
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 interested	advmod
16	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parties	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 continued	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 continued	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 continued	nsubj
22	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 established	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 remarks	nmod:poss
24	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 continued	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 random	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 random	cc
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 random	nsubj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 random	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 random	case
31	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 established	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 established	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	establish	past · passive		this relations	random	to the mutual satisfaction of the parties; soon property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	continue	past	the old man	man's remarks			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remark=Theme
3	satisfy			the parties			nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	remark		man				nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=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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