Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 8

The sound was wherever the imagination chose to locate it--to the right, to the left, in the air, on the ground, far away or near at hand, but always dim and always indistinct.

Who acts: sound · What happens: be, locate · To what, where: imagination, ground

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 (sound), 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 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chose	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chose	cop
4	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chose	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 imagination	det
6	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chose	nsubj
7	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 locate	mark
9	locate	locate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chose	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 locate	obj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 right	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 right	det
14	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 locate	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 left	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 left	det
18	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 air	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ground	punct
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 locate	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 away	punct
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 away	advmod
29	away	away	ADV	_	9 locate	advmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 near	cc
31	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 away	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 hand	case
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 away	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dim	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 dim	cc
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 dim	advmod
37	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chose	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 indistinct	cc
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 indistinct	advmod
40	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dim	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sound					choose, wherever property	tree rules
2	locate	to-infinitive	the sound not said here	imagination		the ground		to the right and the left and the air; away 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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