Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 116

The difference between the dialect of the legends and that of the character--sketches, slight as it is, marks the modifications which the speech of the negro has undergone even where education has played in deed, save in the no part reforming it.

Who acts: difference, part · What happens: be, mark, undergo, play, save, reform · To what, where: modifications, speech, education, deed, part, negro · 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 (difference, part), 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 difference	det
2	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marks	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 dialect	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dialect	det
5	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 difference	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 legends	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 legends	det
8	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dialect	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 that	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 legends	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 character	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 character	det
13	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 sketches	punct
15	sketches	sketch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 character	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slight	punct
17	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 character	amod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 is	nsubj
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 slight	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 difference	punct
22	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 modifications	det
24	modifications	modification	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 marks	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 undergone	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 speech	det
27	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 undergone	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 negro	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 negro	det
30	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 speech	nmod
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 undergone	aux
32	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 modifications	acl:relcl
33	even	even	ADV	_	37 played	advmod
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 played	advmod
35	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 played	nsubj:pass
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 played	aux
37	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 undergone	advcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 deed	case
39	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 played	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 save	punct
41	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 marks	parataxis
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 part	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 part	det
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 part	det
45	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 save	obl
46	reforming	reform	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 part	acl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 reforming	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 marks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	difference			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mark	present	the difference between the dialect of the legends	the modifications		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent modification=Destination
3	undergo	present · perfect · passive		the speech of the negro		tree rules
4	play	present · perfect · passive		education	deed	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	save	infinitive			the part	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	reform	gerund	the part not said here	education		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	speak			the negro		nom speech «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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