Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 1
WHEN Miss Theodosia Huntingdon, of Burlington, Vermont, concluded to come South in 1870, she was moved by three considerations.
Who acts: Miss, three considerations · What happens: conclude, come, move · To what, where: 1870, Vermont
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, three considerations), 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 | WHEN | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 concluded | advmod |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 concluded | nsubj |
| 3 | Theodosia | Theodosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Miss | flat |
| 4 | Huntingdon | Huntingdon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Miss | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Burlington | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Burlington | case |
| 7 | Burlington | Burlington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Miss | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Vermont | punct |
| 9 | Vermont | Vermont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Miss | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Miss | punct |
| 11 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 concluded | xcomp |
| 14 | South | south | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1870 | case |
| 16 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 concluded | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 moved | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 moved | aux:pass |
| 20 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 concluded | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 considerations | case |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 considerations | nummod |
| 23 | considerations | consideration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 moved | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past | Miss and Burlington and Vermont | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Miss and Burlington and Vermont not said here | 1870 | south property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1870=Location | |||
| 3 | move | past · passive | three considerations | Vermont | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result |
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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