Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 6

"It is really singular," remarked a commencement orator, "that not even an ordinary holiday--a holiday, it seems to me, that ought to arouse all the latent instincts of patriotism in the bosom of American citizens--can occur without embroiling some of our most valuable citizens.

Who acts: editor, it, that, ordinary holiday · What happens: be, remark, seem, arouse, occur, embroil · To what, where: me, latent instincts, bosom, that, some, American citizens · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (editor, it, that, ordinary holiday), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 singular	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singular	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 singular	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 singular	advmod
5	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 orator	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 singular	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 remarked	punct
8	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 orator	amod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 orator	det
10	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 orator	compound
11	orator	orator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 orator	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 orator	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 occur	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 holiday	advmod
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 holiday	advmod
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 holiday	det
18	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 holiday	amod
19	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 occur	nsubj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 holiday	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 holiday	det
22	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holiday	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seems	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seems	nsubj
25	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 holiday	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 seems	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 arouse	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 arouse	nsubj
30	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 arouse	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	32 arouse	mark
32	arouse	arouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seems	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 instincts	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 instincts	det
35	latent	latent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 instincts	amod
36	instincts	instinct	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 arouse	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 patriotism	case
38	patriotism	patriotism	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 instincts	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 bosom	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bosom	det
41	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 arouse	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 citizens	case
43	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 citizens	amod
44	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 bosom	nmod
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 arouse	punct
46	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 occur	aux
47	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 orator	parataxis
48	without	without	SCONJ	_	49 embroiling	mark
49	embroiling	embroil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 occur	advcl
50	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 embroiling	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	55 citizens	case
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 citizens	nmod:poss
53	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	54 valuable	advmod
54	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 citizens	amod
55	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 some	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 orator	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	editor				singular property	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem in a quote	present	it		me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	arouse in a quote	ought	that	all latent instincts of patriotism		the bosom of American citizens		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus instinct=Experiencer
5	occur in a quote	can	a ordinary holiday and a holiday	that				tree rules
6	embroil in a quote	gerund	a ordinary holiday and a holiday not said here	some				tree rules
7	bosom in a quote			American citizens				nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient

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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