Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 112

They are written, and are intended to be read, solely with reference to the regular and invariable recurrence of the caesura, as, for instance, the first stanza of the Revival Hymn:

Who acts: caesura · What happens: write, intend, read, recur · To what, where: readers

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 (caesura), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 intended	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 intended	cc
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 intended	aux:pass
7	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 written	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 read	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 read	aux:pass
10	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 intended	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reference	punct
12	solely	solely	ADV	_	14 reference	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 reference	case
14	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 intended	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	20 recurrence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 recurrence	det
17	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 recurrence	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 invariable	cc
19	invariable	invariable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 regular	conj
20	recurrence	recurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reference	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 caesura	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 caesura	det
23	caesura	caesura	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recurrence	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 instance	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 instance	case
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 instance	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 instance	case
28	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 intended	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stanza	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stanza	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 stanza	amod
32	stanza	stanza	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 instance	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 Hymn	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Hymn	det
35	Revival	revival	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Hymn	compound
36	Hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stanza	nmod
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		readers = reader		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	intend	present · passive			with reference to the regular recurrence of the caesura; as instance	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as instance=Attribute
3	read	to-infinitive · passive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»
4	recur		the caesura			nom recurrence «event 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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