Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 63

"It is interesting to find a story from Upper Egypt (that of the fox who pretended to be dead) identical with an Amazonian story, and strongly resembling one found by you among the negroes.

Who acts: fox · What happens: be, find, pretend, resemble · To what, where: story, Upper Egypt, one · 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 (fox), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 interesting	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interesting	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 interesting	cop
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 interesting	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Egypt	case
10	Upper	Upper	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Egypt	compound
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 fox	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 fox	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fox	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fox	det
16	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	appos
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 pretended	nsubj
18	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fox	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 dead	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dead	cop
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pretended	advcl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 fox	punct
23	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 story	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 story	det
26	Amazonian	Amazonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 story	compound
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 identical	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 resembling	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 resembling	cc
30	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	31 resembling	advmod
31	resembling	resemble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 interesting	advcl
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 resembling	obj
33	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 one	acl
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 found	obl
36	among	among	ADP	_	38 negroes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 negroes	det
38	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 found	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				interesting property	tree rules
2	find in a quote	to-infinitive		a story	Upper Egypt	identical property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent story=Theme from egypt=Source
3	pretend in a quote	past	the fox				tree rules
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	the fox not said here			dead property	tree rules
5	resemble in a quote	gerund		one		strongly property	tree rules
6	find in a quote	participle				by you; among the negroes	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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