Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 19
Because, by a stroke here and a touch there, you have conveyed into their quaint antics the illumination of your own inimitable humor, which is as true to our sun and soil as it is to the spirit and essence of the matter set forth.
Who acts: you, own inimitable humor, soil, stroke, your · What happens: convey, be, set, antic, illuminate, humor · To what, where: quaint antics, matter, own inimitable humor
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 (you, own inimitable humor, soil, stroke), 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 | _ | 5 stroke | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stroke | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 stroke | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stroke | det |
| 5 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conveyed | advcl |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stroke | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 touch | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 touch | det |
| 9 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stroke | conj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 touch | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stroke | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 conveyed | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 conveyed | aux |
| 14 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 antics | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 antics | nmod:poss |
| 17 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 antics | amod |
| 18 | antics | antic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 conveyed | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 illumination | det |
| 20 | illumination | illumination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 antics | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 humor | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 humor | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 humor | amod |
| 24 | inimitable | inimitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 humor | amod |
| 25 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 illumination | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 true | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 true | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 true | cop |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 true | case |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 humor | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 sun | case |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sun | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 true | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 soil | cc |
| 35 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sun | conj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 spirit | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 spirit | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 spirit | cop |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 spirit | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 spirit | det |
| 41 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 true | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 essence | cc |
| 43 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spirit | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 matter | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 matter | det |
| 46 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 essence | nmod |
| 47 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 matter | acl |
| 48 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 47 set | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 conveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | present · perfect | you | stroke's quaint antics | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your own inimitable humor | to our sun and soil; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | soil | to the spirit and essence of the matter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | participle | the matter not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | antic | stroke | nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | illuminate | your own inimitable humor | nom illumination «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | humor | your | nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=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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