Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 69

The animal stories told by the negroes in our Southern States and in Brazil were brought by them from Africa.

Who acts: Brazil · What happens: tell, bring · To what, where: animal stories, Africa · 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 (Brazil), 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	3 stories	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stories	compound
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	nsubj:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stories	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 negroes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 negroes	det
7	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 States	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 States	nmod:poss
10	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	11 States	compound
11	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 negroes	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Brazil	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Brazil	case
14	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 States	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux:pass
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Africa	case
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		the animal stories not said here				by the negroes in our Southern States and Brazil	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past · passive	Brazil	the animal stories		Africa			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from africa=Initial_Location

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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