Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 4
When, therefore, on the 12th of October, 1870--the date is duly recorded in one of Miss Theodosia's letters--she alighted from the cars in Atlanta, in the midst of a great crowd, she fully expected to find her brother waiting to receive her.
Who acts: Vermont, great crowd, brother, Miss Theodosia · What happens: record, alight, expect, find, wait, receive · To what, where: date, cars, great crowd, brother, 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 (Vermont, great crowd, brother, Miss Theodosia), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 therefore | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 recorded | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 12th | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 12th | det |
| 7 | 12th | 12th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 therefore | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 October | case |
| 9 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 12th | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1870 | punct |
| 11 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 12th | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 12th | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 date | det |
| 14 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 recorded | aux:pass |
| 16 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 17 recorded | advmod |
| 17 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 recorded | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 letters | case |
| 21 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Theodosia | compound |
| 22 | Theodosia | Theodosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 letters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Theodosia | case |
| 24 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 alighted | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 alighted | nsubj |
| 27 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 recorded | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 cars | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cars | det |
| 30 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 alighted | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Atlanta | case |
| 32 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 alighted | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 midst | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 midst | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 midst | det |
| 36 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 alighted | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 crowd | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 crowd | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 crowd | amod |
| 40 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 midst | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 expected | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 expected | nsubj |
| 43 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 44 expected | advmod |
| 44 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 find | mark |
| 46 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 expected | xcomp |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 brother | nmod:poss |
| 48 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 find | obj |
| 49 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 brother | acl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 receive | mark |
| 51 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 waiting | xcomp |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 receive | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | the date | in one of Miss Theodosia's letters; duly, therefore property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | alight | participle | Vermont | the cars | in Atlanta | tree rules | |||
| 3 | expect | past | Vermont | a great crowd not said here | fully property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | a great crowd not said here | Vermont's brother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | Vermont's brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | receive | to-infinitive | Vermont's brother not said here | Vermont | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | letter | Miss Theodosia | nom letter «communication transitive»: 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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