Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 65
His theory rested on rather a slender basis, yet it must be confessed that he had one or two strong points.
Who acts: Vambagen · What happens: rest, confess, have · To what, where: theory, slender basis, one strong points
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 theory | nmod:poss |
| 2 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 basis | case |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 basis | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 basis | det |
| 7 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 basis | amod |
| 8 | basis | basis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 confessed | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 confessed | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 confessed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 confessed | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 confessed | aux:pass |
| 14 | confessed | confess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rested | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 confessed | ccomp |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 points | nummod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 two | cc |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 one | conj |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 points | amod |
| 22 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle · passive | Vambagen's theory | a slender basis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on basis=Location | ||||
| 2 | confess | must · passive | theory | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Vambagen | one strong points | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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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