Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 3

The presence of this humble but useful vessel in Uncle Remus's bag was made the occasion for several suggestive jokes at his expense by the members of the staff, but the old man's good humor was proof against all insinuations.

Who acts: good humor, old man · What happens: make, be, humor · To what, where: presence

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good humor, old man), 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	2 presence	det
2	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 vessel	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 vessel	det
5	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vessel	amod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 useful	cc
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 humble	conj
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presence	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 bag	case
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bag	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Remus	case
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presence	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 occasion	det
17	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 jokes	case
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jokes	amod
20	suggestive	suggestive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jokes	amod
21	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 occasion	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 expense	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 expense	nmod:poss
24	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jokes	nmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 members	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 members	det
27	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 expense	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 staff	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 staff	det
30	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 members	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 proof	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 proof	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 humor	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 man	case
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 humor	amod
38	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 proof	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 proof	cop
40	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 made	parataxis
41	against	against	ADP	_	43 insinuations	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 insinuations	det
43	insinuations	insinuation	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 proof	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the presence of this humble vessel in Uncle Remus's bag		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary occasion=Product for joke=Asset
2	is	past	the old man's good humor		against all insinuations; proof property	tree rules
3	humor		the old man			nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=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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