Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 20
The next moment Uncle Remus was elbowing his way unceremoniously through the crowd, and in a very short time, seated in the carriage driven by the old man, Miss Huntingdon was whirling through the streets of Atlanta in the direction of her brother's home.
Who acts: next moment, Miss Huntingdon · What happens: elbow, seat, drive, whirl · To what, where: way, crowd, short time, carriage, streets
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 (next moment, Miss Huntingdon), 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 | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elbowing | nsubj |
| 4 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Remus | compound |
| 5 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 elbowing | aux |
| 7 | elbowing | elbow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elbowing | obj |
| 10 | unceremoniously | unceremoniously | ADV | _ | 7 elbowing | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 crowd | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crowd | det |
| 13 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elbowing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 time | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 short | advmod |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elbowing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seated | punct |
| 22 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 carriage | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 carriage | det |
| 25 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seated | obl |
| 26 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 carriage | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 driven | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 whirling | punct |
| 32 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Huntingdon | compound |
| 33 | Huntingdon | Huntingdon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 whirling | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 whirling | aux |
| 35 | whirling | whirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 elbowing | conj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 streets | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 streets | det |
| 38 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 whirling | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Atlanta | case |
| 40 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 streets | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 direction | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 direction | det |
| 43 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 whirling | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 home | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 brother | nmod:poss |
| 46 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 home | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 brother | case |
| 48 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 direction | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 elbowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elbow | past · progressive | the next moment | Remus's way | the crowd | time | unceremoniously property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Patient through crowd=Location | |
| 2 | seat | participle | a short time not said here | the carriage | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location | ||||
| 3 | drive | participle | the carriage not said here | by the old man | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | whirl | past · progressive | Miss Huntingdon | the streets of Atlanta | in the direction of Huntingdon's brother's home | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through street=Source in direction=Trajectory |
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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