Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 47

Miss Theodosia listened with great interest, but throughout it all she observed--and she was painfully conscious of the fact, as she afterward admitted--that Uncle Remus spoke from the standpoint of a Southerner, and with the air of one who expected his hearers to thoroughly sympathize with him.

Who acts: Miss, upshot, ai, Uncle · What happens: listen, observe, be, admit, speak, expect · To what, where: standpoint, hearers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Miss, upshot, ai, Uncle), 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	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
2	Theodosia	Theodosia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Miss	flat
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 interest	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 interest	amod
6	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 observed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 observed	cc
9	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 observed	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 it	det
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 observed	nsubj
13	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 conscious	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 conscious	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 conscious	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 conscious	cop
18	painfully	painfully	ADV	_	19 conscious	advmod
19	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 observed	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fact	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fact	det
22	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 conscious	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 admitted	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 admitted	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 admitted	nsubj
26	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	27 admitted	advmod
27	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 observed	parataxis
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 spoke	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 spoke	mark
30	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 spoke	nsubj
31	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Uncle	flat
32	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 admitted	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 standpoint	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 standpoint	det
35	standpoint	standpoint	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spoke	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Southerner	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Southerner	det
38	Southerner	Southerner	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 standpoint	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 expected	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 expected	cc
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 air	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 expected	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 one	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 expected	obl
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 expected	nsubj
47	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hearers	nmod:poss
49	hearers	hearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 expected	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	52 sympathize	mark
51	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	52 sympathize	advmod
52	sympathize	sympathize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 expected	advcl
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sympathize	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Miss			with great interest	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	observe	past	upshot				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	ai			of the fact; conscious, painfully property	tree rules
4	admit speech: other	past	ai			afterward property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	past	Uncle		the standpoint of a Southerner		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	expect	past		Uncle's hearers		with the air; of one	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearer=Theme
7	sympathize	to-infinitive				with Uncle; thoroughly property	vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with he=Stimulus

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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