Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 45
Compare this with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear, in which Miss Meadows's bed-cord is used instead of a vine-stem.
Who acts: you, terrapin · What happens: compare, use, contest · To what, where: this, bed cord
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 (you, terrapin), 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 | Compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Compare | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compare | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 contest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 terrapin | det |
| 8 | terrapin | terrapin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contest | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 terrapin | case |
| 10 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bear | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 used | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 used | obl |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 cord | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Meadows | Meadows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Miss | flat |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Miss | case |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cord | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 bed | punct |
| 22 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 used | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 used | aux:pass |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Compare | parataxis |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 30 stem | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 stem | det |
| 28 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stem | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 vine | punct |
| 30 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 used | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | imperative | you not said here | this | with the story of the terrapin's contest with the bear | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with story=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | use | present · passive | Miss's bed cord | instead a vine stem | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | contest | the terrapin | with the bear | nom contest «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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