Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 61

It soothed him, however, to hear the strong, musical voice of his sable patron, not very far away, tenderly contending with a lusty tune; and to this accompaniment the little boy dropped asleep:

Who acts: child, little boy · What happens: soothe, hear, contend, drop · To what, where: en, strong musical voice, accompaniment

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 (child, little boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 soothed	nsubj
2	soothed	soothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 soothed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 hear	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 soothed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strong	punct
12	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 patron	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 patron	nmod:poss
16	sable	sable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 patron	amod
17	patron	patron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 voice	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tenderly	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 tenderly	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 tenderly	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tenderly	punct
24	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hear	parataxis
25	contending	contend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tenderly	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 tune	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tune	det
28	lusty	lusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tune	amod
29	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 contending	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 dropped	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dropped	cc
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 accompaniment	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 accompaniment	det
34	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dropped	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boy	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 boy	amod
37	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dropped	nsubj
38	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 soothed	parataxis
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dropped	xcomp
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 soothed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	soothe	past	child	en			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	hear	to-infinitive	child not said here	the strong musical voice of en's sable patron		however property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	contend	gerund	child not said here			with a lusty tune	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tune=Co-Agent
4	drop	past	the little boy		this accompaniment	asleep property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to accompaniment=Trajectory

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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