Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 8

This final moral sentiment, which was altogether an impromptu utterance, and which was delivered with the air of one who addresses a vast but invisible audience of young ladies in white dresses and blue sashes, seemed to add to the embarrassment of Uncle Remus, and at the same time to make an explanation necessary.

Who acts: This, final moral sentiment · What happens: sentiment, be, deliver, address, seem, add · To what, where: impromptu utterance, vast audience, explanation, Uncle Remus

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 (This, final moral sentiment), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sentiment	nsubj
2	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentiment	amod
3	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentiment	amod
4	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seemed	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 utterance	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 utterance	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 utterance	cop
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	11 utterance	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 utterance	det
10	impromptu	impromptu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 utterance	amod
11	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sentiment	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 delivered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 delivered	cc
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 delivered	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 delivered	aux:pass
16	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 utterance	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 delivered	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 air	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 addresses	nsubj
23	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 one	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 audience	det
25	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 audience	amod
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 invisible	cc
27	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 vast	conj
28	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 addresses	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 ladies	case
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ladies	amod
31	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 audience	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 dresses	case
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dresses	amod
34	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ladies	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sashes	cc
36	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sashes	amod
37	sashes	sash	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dresses	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sentiment	punct
39	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	to	to	PART	_	41 add	mark
41	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 seemed	xcomp
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 embarrassment	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 embarrassment	det
44	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 add	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 Remus	case
46	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Remus	compound
47	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 embarrassment	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 time	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 time	cc
50	at	at	ADP	_	53 time	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 time	det
52	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 time	amod
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seemed	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 make	mark
55	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 time	acl
56	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 explanation	det
57	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 make	obj
58	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 make	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sentiment		This				tree rules
2	is a	past	final moral sentiment	a impromptu utterance		altogether property	tree rules
3	deliver	past · passive		a impromptu utterance		with the air of one	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	address	present		a vast audience of young ladies in white dresses and blue sashes			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Destination
5	seem	past			time		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	add speech: assert	to-infinitive				to the embarrassment of Uncle Remus	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to embarrassment=Co-Patient
7	make	to-infinitive		a explanation		necessary property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset explanation=Product
8	embarrass			Uncle Remus			nom embarrassment «feeling 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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