Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 55

This similarity extends to almost every story quoted by Mr. Smith, and some are so nearly identical as to point unmistakably to a common origin; but when and where? when did the negro or the North American Indian ever come in contact with the tribes of South America?

Who acts: similarity, some · What happens: extend, quote, be, point, come · To what, where: story, common origin, contact

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 (similarity, some), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 similarity	det
2	similarity	similarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extends	nsubj
3	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 story	case
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 story	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extends	obl
8	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Smith	case
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Smith	nmod:desc
11	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 quoted	obl:agent
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 identical	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 identical	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 identical	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 identical	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 identical	advmod
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 identical	advmod
18	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 extends	parataxis
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 point	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 point	mark
21	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 identical	advcl
22	unmistakably	unmistakably	ADV	_	21 point	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 origin	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 origin	det
25	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 origin	amod
26	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 point	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 when	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 when	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 extends	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 where	cc
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 when	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 where	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 where	conj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 when	advcl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 negro	det
36	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 did	obj
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 Indian	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Indian	det
39	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Indian	compound
40	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Indian	amod
41	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 negro	conj
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 come	advmod
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 Indian	xcomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 contact	case
45	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 come	obl
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 tribes	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 tribes	det
48	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 contact	nmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 America	case
50	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 America	compound
51	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 tribes	nmod
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 extends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	present	this similarity		every story				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to story=Recipient
2	quote speech: other	participle		every story not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	some					identical, nearly property	tree rules
4	point	to-infinitive	some not said here		a common origin			unmistakably property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to origin=Recipient
5	come	infinitive	this similarity not said here			contact with the tribes of South America	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in contact=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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