Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 121

Uncle Remus describes that reconstruction in his Story of the War, and I may as well add here for the benefit of the curious that that story is almost literally true.

Who acts: Uncle, I, story · What happens: describe, add, be · To what, where: reconstruction, Story

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 (Uncle, I, story), 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	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 reconstruction	det
5	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Story	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Story	nmod:poss
8	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reconstruction	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 War	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 War	det
11	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Story	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 add	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 add	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 add	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 add	aux
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 add	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 describes	parataxis
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 add	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 benefit	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 benefit	det
22	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 add	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 curious	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 curious	det
25	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 benefit	amod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 true	mark
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 story	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 true	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 true	cop
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 true	advmod
31	literally	literally	ADV	_	32 true	advmod
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 curious	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present	Uncle	that reconstruction	Uncle's Story of the War		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reconstruction=Theme
2	add speech: assert	may	I		here	for the benefit	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that story			almost, literally, true 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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