Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 2
His rheumatism had ceased to trouble him, and he was even disposed to be boisterous.
What happens: cease, dispose, be · To what, where: rheumatism, boy
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rheumatism | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rheumatism | rheumatism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ceased | aux |
| 4 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 trouble | mark |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceased | obj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disposed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disposed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disposed | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 disposed | aux:pass |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 disposed | advmod |
| 13 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ceased | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 boisterous | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 boisterous | cop |
| 16 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 disposed | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect · passive | boy's rheumatism | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dispose | past · passive | boy | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | boisterous property | tree rules |
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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