Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 6

And out of the confusion, and while I am trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest, saying "You have made some of us happy."

Who acts: I, You · What happens: try, speak, seem, hear, lift, say · To what, where: right word, confusion, voice, rest, some · 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 (I, You), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 seem	cc
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 confusion	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 confusion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 confusion	det
5	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seem	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trying	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trying	cc
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 trying	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 trying	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trying	aux
11	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 confusion	parataxis
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 trying	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 speak	mark
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 trying	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 word	det
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speak	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 confusion	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 seem	nsubj
20	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seem	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 voice	det
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obj
25	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 voice	acl
26	above	above	ADP	_	28 rest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lifted	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hear	advcl
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
32	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 made	aux
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 saying	ccomp
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 made	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 us	case
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 some	nmod
38	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 made	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 seem	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	I			hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the right word			tree rules
3	seem	present	I		the confusion		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here	a voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
5	lift	participle		a voice not said here	the rest		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent above rest=Destination
6	say speech: assert	gerund	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	make in a quote	present · perfect	You	some		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Product

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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