Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 3

It was in vain that she argued with herself as to the propriety of undertaking the journey alone and unprotected, and she finally put an end to inward and outward doubts by informing herself and her friends, including John Huntingdon, her brother, who was practicing law in Atlanta, that she had decided to visit the South.

Who acts: region, Vermont, propriety, brother · What happens: be, argue, undertake, put, inform, practice · To what, where: journey, end, Vermont, law, Atlanta, South

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 (region, Vermont, propriety, brother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 argued	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 argued	nsubj
7	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 argued	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 propriety	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 propriety	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 propriety	det
13	propriety	propriety	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 argued	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 undertaking	mark
15	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 propriety	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 journey	det
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 undertaking	obj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 journey	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 unprotected	cc
20	unprotected	unprotected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 journey	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
24	finally	finally	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	parataxis
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 doubts	case
29	inward	inward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 doubts	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 outward	cc
31	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 inward	conj
32	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 put	obl
33	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 informing	mark
34	informing	inform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 put	advcl
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 informing	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 friends	cc
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 friends	nmod:poss
38	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 herself	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 John	punct
40	including	including	ADP	_	41 John	case
41	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 informing	obj
42	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 John	flat
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 brother	punct
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 brother	nmod:poss
45	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 informing	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 practicing	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 practicing	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 practicing	aux
49	practicing	practice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 brother	acl
50	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 practicing	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 Atlanta	case
52	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 practicing	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 decided	punct
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 decided	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 decided	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 decided	aux
57	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 put	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 visit	mark
59	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 decided	xcomp
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 South	det
61	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 visit	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	region			vain property	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	past	Vermont			with Vermont; as the propriety	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with herself=Co-Agent
3	undertake	gerund	the propriety not said here	the journey			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
4	put	past	Vermont	a end		to inward doubts; finally property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
5	inform speech: other	gerund	Vermont not said here	Vermont		Vermont's brother obl	tree rules
6	practice	past · progressive	Vermont's brother	law	Atlanta		vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
7	decide	past · perfect	Vermont				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	Vermont not said here	the South			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent south=Co-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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