Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 18
Because you have breathed the breath of life into these amiable brethren of wood and field.
What happens: breathe · To what, where: you, amiable brethren
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: 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 breathed | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 breathed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breathed | aux |
| 4 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 breath | det |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breath | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 brethren | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 brethren | det |
| 11 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brethren | amod |
| 12 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brethren | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 field | cc |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present · perfect · passive | you | this amiable brethren of wood and field | 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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