Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 6
At that moment some one touched her on the arm, and she heard a strong, half-confident, half-apologetic voice exclaim:
Who acts: one, Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice · What happens: touch, hear, exclaim · To what, where: Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice
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 (one, Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touched | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arm | det |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strong | punct |
| 18 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 confident | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 20 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 confident | punct |
| 22 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 apologetic | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 half | punct |
| 24 | apologetic | apologetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 26 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 voice | acl:relcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | some one | Vermont | moment | on the arm | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer on arm=Theme | ||
| 2 | hear | past | Vermont | a strong confident apologetic voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | present | a strong confident apologetic voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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