Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 31
One Sunday afternoon, a few weeks after her arrival, the family were assembled in the piazza enjoying the mild weather.
Who acts: piazza, New · What happens: assemble, enjoy, arrive · To what, where: One Sunday afternoon, piazza, mild weather
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 (piazza, New), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 afternoon | nummod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 afternoon | compound |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 afternoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 weeks | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weeks | amod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 arrival | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weeks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 family | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrival | appos |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 assembled | aux:pass |
| 15 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 piazza | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 piazza | det |
| 18 | piazza | piazza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assembled | obl |
| 19 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 piazza | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weather | det |
| 21 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weather | amod |
| 22 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enjoying | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | One Sunday afternoon | the piazza | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | gerund | the piazza not said here | the mild weather | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weather=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | arrive | New | nom arrival «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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