Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 60

The result of this was that Uncle Remus had to take the little boy by the hand and go with him to the "big house," which the old man was not loath to do; and, when the child went to bed, he lay awake a long time expecting an unseemly visitation from some mysterious source.

Who acts: result, old man, child, en · What happens: be, take, go, not be, do, lie · To what, where: little boy, big house, bed, unseemly visitation, mysterious source, this

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (result, old man, child, en), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 result	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 house	punct
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 which	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 which	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 loath	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 loath	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 loath	advmod
35	loath	loath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 which	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 loath	xcomp
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 went	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 went	punct
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 went	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 child	det
43	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 went	nsubj
44	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 loath	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 bed	case
46	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 went	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lay	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 went	conj
50	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 lay	xcomp
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 time	det
52	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 time	amod
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obl:unmarked
54	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 lay	advcl
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 visitation	det
56	unseemly	unseemly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 visitation	amod
57	visitation	visitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 expecting	obj
58	from	from	ADP	_	61 source	case
59	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 source	det
60	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 source	amod
61	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 expecting	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the result of this					have property	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	the result of this not said here		the little boy			by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination
3	go	infinitive	the result of this not said here			the big house		with en	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	not is	past	the old man					loath property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	the old man not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	past	the child			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
7	lie	past	en				time	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	expect	gerund	en not said here	a unseemly visitation		some mysterious source			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitation=Theme
9	result			this					nom result «phenomenon 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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