Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 2
After the usual "time of day" had been passed between the two, the former inquired about an acquaintance.
What happens: pass, inquire · To what, where: two
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 passed | aux:pass |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 two | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 passed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 former | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 former | det |
| 17 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passed | parataxis |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 former | acl |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 acquaintance | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 acquaintance | det |
| 21 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the two | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: between two=Location | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | about a acquaintance | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about acquaintance=Topic |
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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