Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 40

Uncle Remus was accustomed to make this threat several times a day, but upon this occasion it seemed to remind Mr. Huntingdon of something.

Who acts: it · What happens: accustom, make, seem, remind · To what, where: Uncle Remus, threat, Huntingdon

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 (it), 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	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remus	compound
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 accustomed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accustomed	aux:pass
4	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 accustomed	advcl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 threat	det
8	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 times	amod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obl:unmarked
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 times	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 seemed	cc
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 occasion	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 occasion	det
17	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seemed	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accustomed	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 remind	mark
21	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seemed	xcomp
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Huntingdon	nmod:desc
23	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 remind	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 something	case
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 Huntingdon	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		Uncle Remus				tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		this threat		time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset threat=Product
3	seem	past	it				upon this occasion	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	remind speech: other	to-infinitive			Huntingdon Mr. of something			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent huntingdon=Recipient

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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