Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 28

Pompey Smash and his literary descendants, and different also from the intolerable misrepresentations of the minstrel stage, but it is at least phonetically genuine.

Who acts: dialect · What happens: be, misrepresent · To what, where: least, minstrel stage

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 (dialect), 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	Pompey	Pompey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Smash	Smash	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pompey	flat
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 descendants	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 descendants	nmod:poss
5	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 descendants	amod
6	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pompey	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 misrepresentations	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 misrepresentations	cc
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 misrepresentations	amod
10	also	also	ADV	_	14 misrepresentations	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 misrepresentations	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 misrepresentations	det
13	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 misrepresentations	amod
14	misrepresentations	misrepresentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pompey	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 stage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stage	det
17	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stage	compound
18	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 misrepresentations	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 genuine	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 genuine	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 genuine	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 genuine	cop
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 least	case
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 genuine	obl
25	phonetically	phonetically	ADV	_	26 genuine	advmod
26	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pompey	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pompey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dialect			least		genuine, phonetically property	tree rules
2	misrepresent			the minstrel stage					nom misrepresentation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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