Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 111

As to the songs, the reader is warned that it will be found difficult to make them conform to the ordinary rules of versification, nor is it intended that they should so conform.

Who acts: readers, point, versification · What happens: warn, find, make, conform, be, rule · To what, where: reader, point, readers, ordinary rules · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (readers, point, versification), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 songs	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 songs	det
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 warned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 songs	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reader	det
7	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warned	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 warned	aux:pass
9	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj:pass
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 warned	ccomp
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 found	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	conform	conform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 rules	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rules	det
22	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rules	amod
23	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 conform	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 versification	case
25	versification	versification	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rules	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intended	punct
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 intended	cc
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 intended	cop
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 intended	nsubj
30	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 warned	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 conform	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 conform	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 conform	aux
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 conform	advmod
35	conform	conform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 intended	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present · passive		the reader	as the songs	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	find	future · passive		point	difficult property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	make	to-infinitive		readers = reader		tree rules
4	conform	infinitive	readers = reader not said here		to the ordinary rules of versification goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to rule=Goal
5	is	present	point		intend property	tree rules
6	conform not said to happen	should	readers = reader			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	rule		versification			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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