Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 118

I am perfectly well aware that the character sketches are without permanent interest, but they are embodied here for the purpose of presenting a phase of negro character wholly distinct from that which I have endeavored to preserve in the legends.

Who acts: I, character sketches, purpose · What happens: be, embody, present, endeavor, preserve · To what, where: sketches, phase, negro character, legends

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 (I, character sketches, purpose), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 aware	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	cop
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 aware	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 aware	advmod
5	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 interest	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sketches	det
8	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sketches	compound
9	sketches	sketch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 interest	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 interest	cop
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 interest	case
12	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 interest	amod
13	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aware	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 embodied	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 embodied	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 embodied	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 embodied	aux:pass
18	embodied	embody	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 aware	conj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 embodied	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 purpose	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 purpose	det
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 embodied	obl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 presenting	mark
24	presenting	present	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 purpose	acl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 phase	det
26	phase	phase	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 presenting	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 character	case
28	negro	negro	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 character	amod
29	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 phase	nmod
30	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	31 distinct	advmod
31	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 character	amod
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 that	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 distinct	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 endeavored	nsubj:pass
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 endeavored	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 endeavored	aux
37	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 character	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 preserve	mark
39	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 endeavored	xcomp
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 legends	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 legends	det
42	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 preserve	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 aware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			aware, perfectly, well property	tree rules
2	is	present	the character sketches			without permanent interest	tree rules
3	embody	present · passive		sketches = sketch	here	for the purpose	tree rules
4	present	gerund	the purpose not said here	a phase of negro character			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Theme
5	endeavor	present · perfect · passive		negro character			tree rules
6	preserve	to-infinitive			the legends		vn defend-72.3 «NP V 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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