Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 60

They are certainly found among the Red Negroes; but, unfortunately for the African theory, it is equally certain that they are told by savage Indians of the Amazons Valley, away up on the Tapajos, Red Negro, and Tapura.

Who acts: theory · What happens: find, be, tell · To what, where: stories, savage Indians · 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 (theory), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 Negroes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Negroes	det
7	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Negroes	compound
8	Negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 theory	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 theory	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 theory	punct
12	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	16 theory	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 theory	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 theory	det
15	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 theory	amod
16	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 certain	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 certain	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 certain	cop
20	equally	equally	ADV	_	21 certain	advmod
21	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 theory	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 told	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 told	aux:pass
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 certain	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 Indians	case
27	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Indians	amod
28	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 told	iobj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Valley	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Valley	det
31	Amazons	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 Valley	compound
32	Valley	Valley	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Indians	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 away	punct
34	away	away	ADV	_	16 theory	advmod
35	up	up	ADV	_	34 away	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 Tapajos	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Tapajos	det
38	Tapajos	Tapajos	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 away	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Negro	punct
40	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Negro	compound
41	Negro	Negro	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Tapajos	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Tapura	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Tapura	cc
44	Tapura	Tapura	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 theory	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		stories = story		among the Red Negroes; certainly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	present	theory			certain, equally property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive		stories = story	savage Indians of the Amazons Valley		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient indian=Topic

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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