Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 11

*In the days of slavery, the religious services held by the negroes who accompanied their owners to the camp-meetings were marvels of earnestness and devotion.

Who acts: negroes, camp meetings · What happens: hold, accompany, be · To what, where: religious services, owners

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negroes, camp meetings), 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	*	*	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 slavery	case
6	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 services	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 services	det
9	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 services	amod
10	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	parataxis
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 services	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 negroes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 negroes	det
14	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 accompanied	nsubj
16	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 negroes	acl:relcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 owners	nmod:poss
18	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 accompanied	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	25 marvels	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meetings	det
21	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meetings	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 camp	punct
23	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 marvels	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 marvels	cop
25	marvels	marvel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 accompanied	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 earnestness	case
27	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marvels	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 devotion	cc
29	devotion	devotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 earnestness	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		the religious services not said here	by the negroes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by negro=Location
2	accompany	past	the negroes	negroes's owners		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Theme
3	is	past	the camp meetings		to marvels; of earnestness and devotion	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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