Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 56
Upon this point the author of Brazil and the Amazons, who is engaged in making a critical and comparative study of these myth-stories, writes:
What happens: engage, make, write, study · To what, where: author, critical study, myth stories
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: 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 point | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 writes | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 author | det |
| 5 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Brazil | case |
| 7 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 author | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Amazons | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Amazons | det |
| 10 | Amazons | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Brazil | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 engaged | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 engaged | aux:pass |
| 14 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 author | acl |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 making | mark |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 engaged | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 study | det |
| 18 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 study | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 comparative | cc |
| 20 | comparative | comparative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 critical | conj |
| 21 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stories | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 stories | det |
| 24 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stories | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 myth | punct |
| 26 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 study | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 point | punct |
| 28 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 writes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · passive | the author of Brazil and the Amazons | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a critical study of this myth stories | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset study=Product | |||||
| 3 | write | present | upon this point | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | study | this myth stories | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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