Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 66
Do the resemblances between old and New World stories point to a similar conclusion?
Who acts: you, resemblances · What happens: do, point · To what, where: similar conclusion
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 (you, resemblances), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 resemblances | det |
| 3 | resemblances | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 point | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 old | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 resemblances | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stories | cc |
| 7 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 World | amod |
| 8 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | compound |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 resemblances | conj |
| 10 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 conclusion | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 conclusion | det |
| 13 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conclusion | amod |
| 14 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 point | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | point | present | the resemblances between old and World stories | a similar conclusion | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to conclusion=Recipient |
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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