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
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 | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 gives | advmod |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 outran | mark |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 outran | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tortoise | det |
| 10 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 outran | nsubj |
| 11 | outran | outrun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deer | det |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 outran | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 identical | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 identical | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 identical | cop |
| 17 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deer | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 incident | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 incident | case |
| 20 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 identical | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 story | case |
| 22 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Remus | compound |
| 23 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 story | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Remus | case |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 incident | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 outran | mark |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 outran | advmod |
| 28 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 outran | nsubj |
| 29 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Brer | flat |
| 30 | outran | outrun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 story | acl |
| 31 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Rabbit | compound |
| 32 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 outran | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Smith Mr. | the story | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | outrun | past | the tortoise | the deer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the deer | as incident with Uncle Remus's story; identical property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | outrun | past | Brer | Brer Rabbit | tree 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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