Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 64
Vambagen, the Brazilian historian (now Visconde de Rio Branco), tried to prove a relationship between the ancient Egyptians, or other Turanian stock, and the Tupi Indians.
Who acts: Vambagen · What happens: try, prove · To what, where: Tupi Indians, relationship
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 (Vambagen), 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 | Vambagen | Vambagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 historian | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 historian | det |
| 4 | Brazilian | Brazilian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 historian | amod |
| 5 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vambagen | appos |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Visconde | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Visconde | advmod |
| 8 | Visconde | Visconde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 historian | appos |
| 9 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Visconde | flat |
| 10 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Visconde | flat |
| 11 | Branco | Branco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Visconde | flat |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Visconde | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vambagen | punct |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 prove | mark |
| 16 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 relationship | det |
| 18 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prove | obj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 Egyptians | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Egyptians | det |
| 21 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Egyptians | amod |
| 22 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 relationship | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stock | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 stock | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stock | amod |
| 26 | Turanian | turanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stock | amod |
| 27 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relationship | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Indians | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Indians | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Indians | det |
| 31 | Tupi | Tupi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Indians | compound |
| 32 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 tried | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Vambagen | the Tupi Indians | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | prove not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vambagen not said here | a relationship or other Turanian stock | between the ancient Egyptians | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme |
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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