Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 4
He approached the group by forced marches, and finally unburdened his curiosity.
Who acts: Remus · What happens: approach, force, unburden · To what, where: group, curiosity
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remus), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 approached | nsubj |
| 2 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approached | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 marches | case |
| 6 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 marches | amod |
| 7 | marches | march | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 approached | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unburdened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 unburdened | cc |
| 10 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 11 unburdened | advmod |
| 11 | unburdened | unburden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 approached | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 13 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unburdened | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | Remus | the group | by forced marches | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | |||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | unburden | participle | Remus not said here | Remus's curiosity | finally property | vn free-10.6.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer curiosity=Source |
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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