Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 4

The agricultural editor was the first to open fire:

Who acts: agricultural editor · What happens: be, open · To what, where: fire

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 (agricultural editor), 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 editor	det
2	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 editor	amod
3	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 first	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 first	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 first	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 open	mark
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 first	acl
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the agricultural editor					first property	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive		fire					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=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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