Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 10

Finally some one asked, in a sympathetic tone:

Who acts: one · What happens: ask

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tone	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 tone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tone	det
8	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tone	amod
9	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	ccomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 tone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	some one					finally property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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