Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 114
In other words, the songs depend for their melody and rhythm upon the musical quality of time, and not upon long or short, accented or unaccented syllables.
Who acts: songs · What happens: depend · To what, where: long syllables, other words
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 (songs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 depend | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 songs | det |
| 6 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 depend | nsubj |
| 7 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 melody | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 melody | nmod:poss |
| 10 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depend | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rhythm | cc |
| 12 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 melody | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 quality | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 quality | det |
| 15 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 quality | amod |
| 16 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depend | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quality | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 long | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 long | advmod |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 long | case |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 syllables | amod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 short | cc |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 accented | punct |
| 27 | accented | accented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | conj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 unaccented | cc |
| 29 | unaccented | unaccented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | conj |
| 30 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 depend | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | the songs | long syllables | other words | for songs's melody and rhythm; upon the musical quality of time | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=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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