Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 7

A colony of tree-frogs somewhere in the distance were treating their neighbors to a serenade, but to the little boy it sounded like a chorus of lost and long- forgotten whistlers.

Who acts: colony · What happens: treat, sound, lose, forget · To what, where: neighbors, chorus

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 (colony), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 colony	det
2	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 treating	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 frogs	case
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frogs	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tree	punct
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 colony	nmod
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 distance	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colony	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 treating	aux
12	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neighbors	nmod:poss
14	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 treating	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 serenade	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 serenade	det
17	serenade	serenade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 treating	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sounded	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sounded	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 boy	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounded	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sounded	nsubj
25	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 treating	parataxis
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 chorus	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chorus	det
28	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounded	obl
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 lost	mark
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 chorus	acl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 whistlers	cc
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 forgotten	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 long	punct
34	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 whistlers	amod
35	whistlers	whistler	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 chorus	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 treating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	treat	past · progressive	a colony of tree frogs in the distance	frogs's neighbors	to a serenade	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent neighbor=Theme to serenade=be'
2	sound	past	colony		to the little boy; like a chorus and forgotten whistlers	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to boy=Experiencer
3	lose	participle		a chorus and forgotten whistlers not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	forget	participle				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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