Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 8
Nevertheless, he failed to rebuke the ill-timed mirth of the child, appearing to be altogether engrossed in his work.
Who acts: man · What happens: fail, not rebuke, time, appear, engross, work · To what, where: timed mirth, work
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 failed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rebuke | mark |
| 6 | rebuke | rebuke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 failed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mirth | det |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 timed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ill | punct |
| 10 | timed | time | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mirth | amod |
| 11 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rebuke | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mirth | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appearing | punct |
| 16 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rebuke | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 engrossed | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 engrossed | aux:pass |
| 19 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 20 engrossed | advmod |
| 20 | engrossed | engross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 appearing | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 work | nmod:poss |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 engrossed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | man | nevertheless property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not rebuke | to-infinitive | man not said here | the timed mirth of the child | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | time | participle | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | appear | gerund | man not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | engross | to-infinitive · passive | man not said here | man's work | altogether property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||
| 6 | work | man | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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