Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 62

The form of the stories, as recounted in the Tupi and Mundurucu' languages, seems to show that they were originally formed in those languages or have long been adopted in them.

Who acts: form · What happens: recount, seem, show, form, adopt · To what, where: form, Tupi languages, stories, languages · 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 (form), 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	2 form	det
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seems	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 form	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 recounted	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 recounted	mark
8	recounted	recount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 form	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	15 languages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 languages	det
11	Tupi	Tupi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 languages	compound
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Mundurucu	cc
13	Mundurucu	Mundurucu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tupi	conj
14	'	's	PART	_	13 Mundurucu	case
15	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recounted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 form	punct
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seems	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 formed	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 formed	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 formed	aux:pass
23	originally	originally	ADV	_	24 formed	advmod
24	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 show	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 languages	case
26	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 languages	det
27	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 formed	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 adopted	cc
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 adopted	aux
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 adopted	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 adopted	aux:pass
32	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 formed	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 adopted	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recount speech: other	participle		the form of the stories not said here	the Tupi languages		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seem	present	the form of the stories				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	show	to-infinitive	the form of the stories not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	form	past · passive		stories = story	that languages	originally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	adopt	present · perfect · passive				in stories = story; long property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»
6	form			the stories			nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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