Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 35

But this, to say the least, is extremely doubtful, since another investigator (Mr. Herbert H. Smith, author of Brazil and the Amazons) has met with some of these stories among tribes of South American Indians, and one in particular he has traced to India, and as far east as Siam.

Who acts: this, investigator, one · What happens: say, be, meet, trace · To what, where: least, investigator, India · 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 (this, investigator, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 least	det
7	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 doubtful	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doubtful	cop
10	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	11 doubtful	advmod
11	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 investigator	punct
13	since	since	ADP	_	15 investigator	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 investigator	det
15	investigator	investigator	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 met	nsubj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 Herbert	punct
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Herbert	nmod:desc
18	Herbert	Herbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 investigator	appos
19	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Herbert	flat
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Herbert	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 author	punct
22	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Herbert	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Brazil	case
24	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 author	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Amazons	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Amazons	det
27	Amazons	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 Brazil	conj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Herbert	punct
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 met	aux
30	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 doubtful	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 some	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 met	obl:agent
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 stories	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 stories	det
35	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 some	nmod
36	among	among	ADP	_	37 tribes	case
37	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stories	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 Indians	case
39	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Indians	compound
40	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Indians	amod
41	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 tribes	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 particular	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 particular	cc
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 particular	nsubj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 particular	case
46	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 doubtful	conj
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 traced	nsubj:pass
48	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 traced	aux
49	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 particular	acl:relcl
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 India	case
51	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 traced	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 east	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 east	cc
54	as	as	ADV	_	55 far	advmod
55	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 east	advmod
56	east	east	ADV	_	11 doubtful	conj
57	as	as	ADP	_	58 Siam	case
58	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 east	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	this	the least			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				doubtful, extremely property	tree rules
3	meet	present · perfect	another investigator				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be		one				tree rules
5	trace	present · perfect · passive		investigator	India		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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