Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 61
These Indians hardly ever see a negro, and their languages are very distinct from the broken Portuguese spoken by the slaves.
Who acts: Indians, languages · What happens: see, be, break, speak · To what, where: negro, broken Portuguese · 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 (Indians, languages), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 negro | det |
| 7 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 distinct | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 distinct | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 languages | nmod:poss |
| 11 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 distinct | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 distinct | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 distinct | advmod |
| 14 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Portuguese | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Portuguese | det |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Portuguese | amod |
| 18 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 distinct | obl |
| 19 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 distinct | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 slaves | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 slaves | det |
| 22 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spoken | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | this Indians | a negro | ever | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer negro=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | present | Indians's languages | the broken Portuguese | distinct property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | participle | by the slaves | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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