Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 1
ONE evening when the little boy, whose nights with Uncle Remus were as entertaining as those Arabian ones of blessed memory, had finished supper and hurried out to sit with his venerable patron, he found the old man in great glee.
Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: be, finish, hurry out, sit, find · To what, where: ONE evening, old man, great glee
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ONE | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 entertaining | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entertaining | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nights | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 nights | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boy | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Remus | case |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nights | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 entertaining | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 entertaining | advmod |
| 15 | entertaining | entertaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 evening | acl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 ones | case |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 ones | det |
| 18 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 entertaining | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 memory | case |
| 21 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 memory | amod |
| 22 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ones | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 evening | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 finished | aux |
| 25 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finished | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hurried | cc |
| 28 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 finished | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 hurried | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 sit | mark |
| 31 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hurried | advcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 patron | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 patron | nmod:poss |
| 34 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 patron | amod |
| 35 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sit | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 found | nsubj |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 finished | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 man | amod |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 glee | case |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 glee | amod |
| 44 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little boy the little boy the little boy's nights with Uncle Remus's nights with Uncle Remus | as that Arabian ones of blessed memory; entertaining property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect · passive | ONE evening | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hurry out | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sit | to-infinitive | with boy's venerable patron | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | past | boy | the old man | great glee | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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