Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 13

Measured by the material developments that have compressed years of experience into the space of a day, thus increasing the possibilities of life, if not its beauty, fifteen years constitute the old age of a book.

Who acts: material developments, fifteen years · What happens: measure, compress, increase, constitute · To what, where: space, possibilities, beauty

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 (material developments, fifteen years), 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	Measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 developments	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 developments	det
4	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 developments	compound
5	developments	development	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Measured	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 compressed	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 compressed	aux
8	compressed	compress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 developments	acl:relcl
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 compressed	obl:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 experience	case
11	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 space	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 space	det
14	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 compressed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 space	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 increasing	punct
19	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 increasing	advmod
20	increasing	increase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Measured	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 possibilities	det
22	possibilities	possibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 increasing	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 life	case
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 possibilities	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 constitute	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 constitute	mark
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 beauty	advmod
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beauty	nmod:poss
29	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 constitute	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beauty	punct
31	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 constitute	nsubj
33	constitute	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 increasing	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 age	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 age	amod
36	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 constitute	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 book	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 book	det
39	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 age	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Measured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	participle					by the material developments	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	compress	present · perfect	the material developments		the space of a day	year		vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into space=Product
3	increase	gerund		the possibilities of life			thus property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer possibility=Patient
4	constitute a condition, not said to happen	present	fifteen years	harm's beauty				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Pivot

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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