Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 3

They were unpleasant, for the attention of a wandering policeman was called to the matter by hearing the old man bawl out:

Who acts: words · What happens: be, wonder, call, hear out · To what, where: attention, matter, old man bawl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unpleasant	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unpleasant	cop
3	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 attention	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 attention	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 attention	det
7	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unpleasant	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 policeman	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 policeman	det
10	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 policeman	amod
11	policeman	policeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 attention	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 matter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 matter	det
16	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 hearing	mark
18	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 called	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bawl	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bawl	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bawl	compound
22	bawl	bawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hearing	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	18 hearing	compound:prt
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 unpleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	words = word			for the attention; unpleasant property	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	call	past · passive		the attention not said here	the matter	of a wandering policeman	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: to matter=Recipient
4	hear out	gerund		the old man bawl			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bawl=Stimulus

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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