Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 21
Take it, therefore, my dear Frost, and believe me, faithfully yours,
Who acts: you · What happens: take, believe · To what, where: book, me
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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Frost | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Frost | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Frost | amod |
| 8 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believe | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 believe | cc |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
| 14 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 15 yours | advmod |
| 15 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | book | my dear Frost obl; therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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