Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 3
There have been other editions--how many I do not remember--but this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter: new type, new pictures, and new binding.
Who acts: I, this · What happens: have, be, not remember · To what, where: other editions, many, new one
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 (I, this), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 have | expl |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 editions | cop |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 editions | amod |
| 5 | editions | edition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remember | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 remember | advmod |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 editions | parataxis |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 one | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 one | cop |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 20 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 21 new | advmod |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 matter | punct |
| 24 | except | except | ADP | _ | 28 matter | case |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 matter | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 matter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 matter | det |
| 28 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 type | punct |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 type | amod |
| 31 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 matter | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pictures | punct |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 pictures | amod |
| 34 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 type | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 binding | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 binding | cc |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 binding | amod |
| 38 | binding | binding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 type | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | other editions | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not remember | present · do-support | I | many | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | a new one | 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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