---
title: One Sunday afternoon, a few weeks after her arrival, the family were… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: One Sunday afternoon, a few weeks after her arrival, the family were assembled in the piazza enjoying the mild weather. Who acts: piazza, New. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/31/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/) / 31

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 31

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One Sunday afternoon, a few weeks after her arrival, the family were assembled in the piazza enjoying the mild weather.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** piazza, New · **What happens:** assemble, enjoy, arrive · **To what, where:** One Sunday afternoon, piazza, mild weather

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piazza, New), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:46:31
# text = One Sunday afternoon, a few weeks after her arrival, the family were assembled in the piazza enjoying the mild weather.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	piazza	piazza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | One Sunday afternoon |  | the piazza |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **enjoy** | gerund | the piazza *not said here* | the mild weather |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weather=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | New |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/30/)
- next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/32/)
- ↑ back to [A Story of the War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/)