Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 59

The most natural solution would be to suppose that they originated in Africa, and were carried to South America by the negro slaves.

Who acts: natural solution, stories, negro slaves · What happens: be, originate, carry · To what, where: Africa, South America · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (natural solution, stories, negro slaves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 solution	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 natural	advmod
3	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 solution	amod
4	solution	solution	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 suppose	nsubj:outer
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 suppose	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 suppose	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 suppose	mark
8	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 originated	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 originated	nsubj
11	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 suppose	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 originated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carried	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	aux:pass
17	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 originated	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 America	case
19	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 America	compound
20	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 carried	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 slaves	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 slaves	det
23	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slaves	compound
24	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carried	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	the natural solution			suppose property	tree rules
2	originate	past	stories = story		Africa		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	carry	past · passive	the negro slaves	South America			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to america=Destination

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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