Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 57
"I am not prepared to form a theory about these stories.
What happens: not prepare, form · To what, where: Uncle Remus, theory
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 prepared | advmod |
| 5 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 form | mark |
| 7 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prepared | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 theory | det |
| 9 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 stories | det |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 theory | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prepare in a quote | present · passive | Uncle Remus = remus | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | form not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a theory | about this stories | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location theory=Theme |
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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