Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 100
It would be presumptuous in me to offer an opinion as to the origin of these curious myth-stories; but, if ethnologists should discover that they did not originate with the African, the proof to that effect should be accompanied with a good deal of persuasive eloquence.
Who acts: interpretation, ethnologists · What happens: be, offer, discover, not originate, accompany, deal · To what, where: opinion, proof, persuasive eloquence
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (interpretation, ethnologists), 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 presumptuous | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 presumptuous | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 presumptuous | cop |
| 4 | presumptuous | presumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 presumptuous | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 offer | mark |
| 8 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 presumptuous | advcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opinion | det |
| 10 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 origin | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 origin | det |
| 14 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stories | case |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 stories | nsubj |
| 17 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stories | amod |
| 18 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stories | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 myth | punct |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 origin | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 discover | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 discover | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 but | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 discover | mark |
| 25 | ethnologists | ethnologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 discover | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 discover | aux |
| 27 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 presumptuous | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 originate | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 originate | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 originate | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 originate | advmod |
| 32 | originate | originate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 discover | ccomp |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 African | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 African | det |
| 35 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 originate | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 accompanied | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 proof | det |
| 38 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 effect | case |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 effect | det |
| 41 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 proof | nmod |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 accompanied | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 44 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 originate | parataxis |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 deal | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 deal | det |
| 47 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 deal | amod |
| 48 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 accompanied | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 eloquence | case |
| 50 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 eloquence | amod |
| 51 | eloquence | eloquence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 deal | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presumptuous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | interpretation | in me; presumptuous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | interpretation not said here | a opinion | as the origin of curious myth stories | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent opinion=Pivot as origin=Attribute | |||
| 3 | discover a condition, not said to happen | should | ethnologists | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not originate | past · do-support | ethnologists = ethnologist | with the African | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with african=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | accompany | should · passive | the proof to that effect | with a good deal of persuasive eloquence | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | deal | persuasive eloquence | nom deal «act 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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