Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 115

I am persuaded that this fact led Mr. Sidney Lanier, who is thoroughly familiar with the metrical peculiarities of negro songs, into the exhaustive investigation which has resulted in the publication of his scholarly treatise on The Science of English Verse.

Who acts: fact, Sidney, exhaustive investigation · What happens: persuade, lead, be, result, publish · To what, where: I, Sidney, publication, scholarly treatise

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 (fact, Sidney, exhaustive investigation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 persuaded	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 persuaded	aux:pass
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 led	mark
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fact	det
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	nsubj
7	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 persuaded	advcl
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sidney	nmod:desc
9	Sidney	Sidney	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 led	obj
10	Lanier	Lanier	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sidney	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 familiar	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 familiar	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 familiar	cop
14	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	15 familiar	advmod
15	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Sidney	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 peculiarities	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 peculiarities	det
18	metrical	metrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 peculiarities	amod
19	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 familiar	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 songs	case
21	negro	negro	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 songs	amod
22	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 peculiarities	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 investigation	punct
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 investigation	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 investigation	det
26	exhaustive	exhaustive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 investigation	amod
27	investigation	investigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sidney	appos
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 resulted	nsubj
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 resulted	aux
30	resulted	result	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 investigation	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 publication	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 publication	det
33	publication	publication	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 resulted	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 treatise	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 treatise	nmod:poss
36	scholarly	scholarly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 treatise	amod
37	treatise	treatise	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 publication	nmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 Science	case
39	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Science	det
40	Science	Science	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 treatise	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 Verse	case
42	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Verse	compound
43	Verse	Verse	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Science	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	present · passive		I			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	lead	past	this fact	Sidney Mr.			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sidney=Theme
3	is	present	Sidney Mr.			with the metrical peculiarities of negro songs; familiar, thoroughly property	tree rules
4	result	present · perfect	the exhaustive investigation		the publication of fact's scholarly treatise on the Science of English Verse		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in publication=Location
5	publish			fact's scholarly treatise on the Science of English Verse			nom publication «communication 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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