Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 117
Indeed, save in the remote country districts, the dialect of the legends has nearly disappeared.
Who acts: you, dialect · What happens: save, disappear · To what, where: remote country districts
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 (you, dialect), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 save | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 districts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 districts | det |
| 6 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 districts | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 districts | compound |
| 8 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 save | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dialect | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dialect | det |
| 11 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 legends | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 legends | det |
| 14 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dialect | nmod |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 disappeared | aux |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 disappeared | advmod |
| 17 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 districts | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative | you not said here | the remote country districts | indeed property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | disappear | present · perfect | the dialect of the legends | the remote country districts not said here | nearly property | tree rules |
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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