Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 33
It is but fair to say that ethnological considerations formed no part of the undertaking which has resulted in the publication of this volume.
Who acts: ethnological considerations, undertaking · What happens: be, say, form, result, publish · To what, where: part, publication, volume · 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 (ethnological considerations, undertaking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:30): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fair | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fair | cop |
| 3 | but | but | ADV | _ | 4 fair | advmod |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fair | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 formed | mark |
| 8 | ethnological | ethnological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 considerations | amod |
| 9 | considerations | consideration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 formed | nsubj |
| 10 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 formed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 undertaking | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 undertaking | det |
| 15 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 resulted | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 resulted | aux |
| 18 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 undertaking | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 publication | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 publication | det |
| 21 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resulted | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 volume | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 volume | det |
| 24 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 publication | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | but, fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | form | past | ethnological considerations | no part of the undertaking | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | result | present · perfect | the undertaking | the publication of this volume | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in publication=Location | ||||
| 5 | publish | this volume | nom publication «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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