Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 7

It is really singular to me that such a day should be devoted by a certain class of our population to broils and fisticuffs."

Who acts: editor, certain class · What happens: be, devote · To what, where: me

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, certain class), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 singular	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 singular	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 singular	advmod
4	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 singular	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 devoted	mark
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 day	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 devoted	obl:unmarked
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 devoted	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 devoted	aux:pass
13	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 singular	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 class	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 class	det
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 class	amod
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 devoted	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 population	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 population	nmod:poss
20	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 class	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 broils	case
22	broils	broil	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 population	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fisticuffs	cc
24	fisticuffs	fisticuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 broils	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 singular	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 singular	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	editor		me			singular property	tree rules
2	devote	should · passive	a certain class of our population to broils and fisticuffs				day		vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=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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