Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 31

Mrs. Stowe, let me hasten to say, attacked the possibilities of slavery with all the eloquence of genius; but the same genius painted the portrait of the Southern slave-owner, and defended him.

Who acts: Mrs., me, same genius · What happens: let, hasten, say, attack, paint, defend · To what, where: me, possibilities, portrait, genius, Southern slave owner · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mrs., me, same genius), 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	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
2	Stowe	Stowe	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs.	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mrs.	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hasten	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 attacked	punct
10	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 possibilities	det
12	possibilities	possibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attacked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 slavery	case
14	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possibilities	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 eloquence	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 eloquence	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eloquence	det
18	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slavery	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 genius	case
20	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eloquence	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 painted	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 painted	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 genius	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 genius	amod
25	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 painted	nsubj
26	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 portrait	det
28	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 painted	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 owner	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 owner	det
31	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 owner	amod
32	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 owner	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 slave	punct
34	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 portrait	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 defended	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 defended	cc
37	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 painted	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 defended	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Mrs.	me		tree rules
2	hasten	infinitive	me not said here			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	me not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	attack	past		the possibilities of slavery with all eloquence of genius		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possibility=Patient
5	paint	past	the same genius	the portrait of the Southern slave owner		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent portrait=Destination
6	defend	past	the same genius not said here		genius	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	portray			the Southern slave owner		nom portrait «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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