Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 32

A number of the plantation legends originally appeared in the columns of a daily newspaper--The Atlanta Constitution and in that shape they attracted the attention of various gentlemen who were kind enough to suggest that they would prove to be valuable contributions to myth-literature.

Who acts: number, Constitution, various gentlemen · What happens: appear, attract, be, suggest, prove, attend · To what, where: columns, attention, valuable contributions · 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 (number, Constitution, various gentlemen), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 legends	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 legends	det
5	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legends	compound
6	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
7	originally	originally	ADV	_	8 appeared	advmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 columns	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 columns	det
11	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appeared	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 newspaper	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 newspaper	det
14	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 newspaper	amod
15	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 columns	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 Constitution	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Constitution	det
18	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Constitution	compound
19	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 columns	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shape	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Constitution	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 attracted	nsubj
25	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shape	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 attention	det
27	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 attracted	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 gentlemen	case
29	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gentlemen	amod
30	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 attention	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 kind	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 kind	cop
33	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gentlemen	acl:relcl
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 kind	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 suggest	mark
36	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 kind	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 prove	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 prove	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 prove	aux
40	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 suggest	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	43 valuable	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 valuable	cop
43	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 contributions	amod
44	contributions	contribution	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 prove	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 literature	case
46	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 literature	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 myth	punct
48	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 prove	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a number of the plantation legends		the columns of a daily newspaper the Atlanta Constitution and that shape	originally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in column=Location
2	attract	past	Constitution	the attention of various gentlemen			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
3	is	past	various gentlemen			enough, kind property	tree rules
4	suggest speech: suggest	to-infinitive	various gentlemen not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	prove	would	Constitution	valuable contributions		to myth literature	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contribution=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive				valuable property	tree rules
7	attend		various gentlemen				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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