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description: At that moment some one touched her on the arm, and she heard a strong, half-confident, half-apologetic voice exclaim: Who acts: one, Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 6

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At that moment some one touched her on the arm, and she heard a strong, half-confident, half-apologetic voice exclaim:

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**Who acts:** one, Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice · **What happens:** touch, hear, exclaim · **To what, where:** Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice

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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 (one, Vermont, strong confident apologetic voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:46:6
# text = At that moment some one touched her on the arm, and she heard a strong, half-confident, half-apologetic voice exclaim:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	apologetic	apologetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
26	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | some one | Vermont |  |  | moment | on the arm | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer on arm=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Vermont | a strong confident apologetic voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | present | a strong confident apologetic voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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