Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 24
Applying the sand-paper to the axe-helve with gentle vigor, he began.
Who acts: Remus · What happens: apply, begin · To what, where: sand paper
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 (Remus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1300): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Applying | apply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 began | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paper | det |
| 3 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paper | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sand | punct |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Applying | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 helve | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 helve | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helve | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 axe | punct |
| 10 | helve | helve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Applying | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 vigor | case |
| 12 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vigor | amod |
| 13 | vigor | vigor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Applying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Applying | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | gerund | Remus not said here | the sand paper | to the axe helve; with gentle vigor | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Remus | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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