Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 2
The old man evidently expected an attack all around, for he was unusually quiet, and fumbled in his pockets in an embarrassed manner.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: expect, be, fumble · To what, where: attack, pockets
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expected | nsubj |
| 4 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 5 expected | advmod |
| 5 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 attack | det |
| 7 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expected | obj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 around | advmod |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 expected | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quiet | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 quiet | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 quiet | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 quiet | cop |
| 14 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 15 quiet | advmod |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 expected | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fumbled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fumbled | cc |
| 18 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 quiet | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pockets | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fumbled | obl | |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 manner | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 manner | det |
| 24 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 manner | amod |
| 25 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fumbled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | the old man | a attack | around, evidently property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | man | quiet, unusually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fumble | participle | man not said here | man's pockets | in a embarrassed manner | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |
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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