Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 105

The Irishman had never seen any of this fruit before, and he at once concluded that he had discovered a veritable mare's nest.

Who acts: negro · What happens: not see, conclude, discover · To what, where: Irishman, nest

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 (negro), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Irishman	det
2	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 before	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fruit	det
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 any	nmod
10	before	before	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 concluded	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 concluded	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 concluded	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 concluded	obl
16	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 discovered	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 discovered	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 discovered	aux
20	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 concluded	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mare	det
22	veritable	veritable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mare	amod
23	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nest	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 mare	case
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 discovered	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect · passive		the Irishman	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	conclude	past	negro			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	discover	past · perfect	negro	a veritable mare's nest		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=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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