Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 3

The young men about the office were inclined to chaff him, but his look of sullen resignation remained unchanged.

Who acts: young men, look · What happens: be, chaff, remain · To what, where: Uncle

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 (young men, look), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 inclined	nsubj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 office	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 office	det
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 inclined	cop
8	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chaff	mark
10	chaff	chaff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 inclined	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chaff	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remained	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 remained	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 look	nmod:poss
15	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remained	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 resignation	case
17	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 resignation	amod
18	resignation	resignation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	nmod
19	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 inclined	conj
20	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remained	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young men about the office		inclined property	tree rules
2	chaff	to-infinitive	the young men about the office not said here	Uncle		tree rules
3	remain	past	Uncle's look of sullen resignation		unchanged property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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