Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 12

Insubstantial though it may be, I would not at this hour exchange it for all the fame won by my mightier brethren of the pen--whom I most humbly salute.

Who acts: I, pen · What happens: exchange, win, salute · To what, where: harm, fame

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, pen), 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	Insubstantial	Insubstantial	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 exchange	vocative
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 be	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	1 Insubstantial	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Insubstantial	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 exchange	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 exchange	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hour	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exchange	nsubj
13	exchange	exchange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 exchange	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 fame	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 fame	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fame	det
18	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exchange	obl
19	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 fame	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 brethren	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brethren	nmod:poss
22	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 brethren	amod
23	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 won	obl:agent
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 pen	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pen	det
26	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brethren	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 salute	punct
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 salute	nsubj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 salute	nsubj
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 humbly	advmod
31	humbly	humbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 salute	amod
32	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pen	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 exchange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exchange	would	I	harm	for all fame; Insubstantial vocative	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for fame=Co-Theme
2	win	participle		all fame not said here		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	salute		the pen			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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