Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 30
At any rate, I trust I have been successful in presenting what must be, at least to a large portion of American readers, a new and by no means unattractive phase of negro character--a phase which may be considered a curiously sympathetic supplement to Mrs. Stowe's wonderful defense of slavery as it existed in the South.
Who acts: I, no, phase · What happens: trust, be, present, mean, consider, exist · To what, where: rate, unattractive phase, phase, South
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, no, phase), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 rate | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 rate | det |
| 3 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rate | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 trust | nsubj |
| 6 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 successful | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 successful | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 successful | cop |
| 10 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trust | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 presenting | mark |
| 12 | presenting | present | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 successful | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 be | obj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 presenting | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 portion | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 portion | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 portion | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 portion | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 portion | amod |
| 22 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 presenting | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 readers | case |
| 24 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 readers | amod |
| 25 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 portion | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 new | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 new | det |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 successful | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 means | cc |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 32 means | mark |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 means | nsubj |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 new | conj |
| 33 | unattractive | unattractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 phase | amod |
| 34 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 means | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 character | case |
| 36 | negro | negro | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 character | amod |
| 37 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 phase | nmod |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 phase | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 phase | det |
| 40 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 character | appos |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 considered | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 considered | aux:pass |
| 44 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 phase | acl:relcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 supplement | det |
| 46 | curiously | curiously | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 supplement | amod |
| 47 | sympathetic | sympathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 supplement | amod |
| 48 | supplement | supplement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 considered | xcomp |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 defense | case |
| 50 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Stowe | compound |
| 51 | Stowe | Stowe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 defense | nmod:poss |
| 52 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 51 Stowe | case |
| 53 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 defense | amod |
| 54 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 considered | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 slavery | case |
| 56 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 defense | nmod |
| 57 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 59 existed | mark |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 existed | nsubj |
| 59 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 considered | advcl |
| 60 | in | in | ADP | _ | 62 South | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 South | det |
| 62 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 existed | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | I | any rate | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | I | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | present | gerund | I not said here | to a large portion at least of American readers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | must | I not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | no | unattractive phase of negro character | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Topic | ||||
| 6 | consider | may · passive | a phase | to Mrs. Stowe's wonderful defense of slavery | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | exist | past | phase | the South | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |
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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