Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 36

Mr. Smith has been kind enough to send me the proof-sheets of his chapter on The Myths and Folk-Lore of the Amazonian Indians, in which he reproduces some of the stories which he gathered while exploring the Amazons.

Who acts: Smith · What happens: be, send, reproduce, gather, explore · To what, where: proof sheets, me, some, stories, Amazons

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 (Smith), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Smith	nmod:desc
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 send	mark
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 send	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheets	det
11	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sheets	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 proof	punct
13	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 send	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 chapter	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chapter	nmod:poss
16	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sheets	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 Myths	case
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Myths	det
19	Myths	Myths	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 send	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Lore	cc
21	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Lore	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Folk	punct
23	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Myths	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Indians	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Indians	det
26	Amazonian	Amazonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Indians	compound
27	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 Lore	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reproduces	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 reproduces	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reproduces	nsubj
32	reproduces	reproduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	parataxis
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 reproduces	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 stories	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stories	det
36	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 some	nmod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 gathered	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gathered	nsubj
39	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stories	acl:relcl
40	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 exploring	mark
41	exploring	explore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 gathered	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Amazons	det
43	Amazons	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Plur	41 exploring	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	Smith Mr.			enough, kind property	tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive	Smith Mr. not said here	the proof sheets of Mr.'s chapter	me		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sheet=Theme
3	reproduce	present	Smith	some			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	gather	past	Smith	the stories			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	explore	gerund	Smith not said here	the Amazons			vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent amazon=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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