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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 39

Mr. Smith also gives the story of how the tortoise outran the deer, which is identical as to incident with Uncle Remus's story of how Brer Tarrypin outran Brer Rabbit.

Who acts: Smith, tortoise, deer, Brer · What happens: give, outrun, be · To what, where: story, deer, Brer Rabbit

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, tortoise, deer, Brer), 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

nmod:descnsubjadvmoddetobjmarkadvmoddetnsubjacldetobjpunctnsubjcopacl:relclcasecaseoblcasecompoundnmod:posscasenmodmarkadvmodnsubjflataclcompoundobjpunctrootMr.PROPNSmithPROPNalsoADVgivesVERBtheDETstoryNOUNofSCONJhowADVtheDETtortoiseNOUNoutranVERBtheDETdeerNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONisAUXidenticalADJasADPtoADPincidentNOUNwithADPUnclePROPNRemusPROPN'sPARTstoryNOUNofSCONJhowADVBrerPROPNTarrypinPROPNoutranVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1Mr.Mr.PROPNNumber=Sing2 Smithnmod:desc
2SmithSmithPROPNNumber=Sing4 givesnsubj
3alsoalsoADV_4 givesadvmod
4givesgiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 storydet
6storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing4 givesobj
7ofofSCONJ_11 outranmark
8howhowADVPronType=Int11 outranadvmod
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 tortoisedet
10tortoisetortoiseNOUNNumber=Sing11 outrannsubj
11outranoutrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 storyacl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 deerdet
13deerdeerNOUNNumber=Sing11 outranobj
14,,PUNCT_17 identicalpunct
15whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 identicalnsubj
16isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 identicalcop
17identicalidenticalADJDegree=Pos13 deeracl:relcl
18asasADP_20 incidentcase
19totoADP_20 incidentcase
20incidentincidentNOUNNumber=Sing17 identicalobl
21withwithADP_25 storycase
22UncleUnclePROPNNumber=Sing23 Remuscompound
23RemusRemusPROPNNumber=Sing25 storynmod:poss
24's'sPART_23 Remuscase
25storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing20 incidentnmod
26ofofSCONJ_30 outranmark
27howhowADVPronType=Int30 outranadvmod
28BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing30 outrannsubj
29TarrypinTarrypinPROPNNumber=Sing28 Brerflat
30outranoutrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 storyacl
31BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing32 Rabbitcompound
32RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing30 outranobj
33..PUNCT_4 givespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepresentSmith Mr.the storyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2outrunpastthe tortoisethe deertree rules
3ispresentthe deeras incident with Uncle Remus's story; identical propertytree rules
4outrunpastBrerBrer Rabbittree rules

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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