Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 58

There can be no doubt that some of them, found among the negroes and the Indians, had a common origin.

Who acts: doubt, some · What happens: be, find, have · To what, where: doubt, common origin

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 (doubt, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 doubt	det
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 found	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 some	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 some	punct
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doubt	acl
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 negroes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 negroes	det
14	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Indians	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Indians	det
17	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 negroes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 origin	det
21	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 origin	amod
22	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	can	can	no doubt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	some	no doubt not said here		among the negroes and the Indians	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Topic
3	have	past	some not said here	a common origin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=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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