Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 44

The struggle between the whale and tapir goes on until each thinks the tortoise is the strongest of animals.

Who acts: struggle, each, tortoise · What happens: go on, think, be · 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 (struggle, each, tortoise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 struggle	det
2	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 whale	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struggle	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tapir	cc
7	tapir	tapir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whale	conj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 goes	advmod
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 thinks	mark
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 thinks	nsubj
12	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 goes	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tortoise	det
14	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strongest	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 strongest	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strongest	det
17	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thinks	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 animals	case
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 strongest	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go on	present	the struggle between the whale and tapir		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	each		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the tortoise	of animals; strong property	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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