Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 70
Whether they originated there, or with the Arabs, or Egyptians, or with yet more ancient nations, must still be an open question.
Who acts: stories · What happens: originate, be · To what, where: open question
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 (stories), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 originated | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 originated | nsubj |
| 3 | originated | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 originated | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Arabs | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Arabs | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Arabs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Arabs | det |
| 9 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 originated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Egyptians | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Egyptians | cc |
| 12 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Arabs | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nations | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 nations | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 nations | case |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 ancient | advmod |
| 18 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nations | amod |
| 19 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 originated | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 question | punct |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 question | aux |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 question | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 question | cop |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 question | det |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 question | amod |
| 26 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nations | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 originated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | originate | past | stories = story | there | with the Arabs or Egyptians | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with arab=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is a | must | stories = story not said here | a open question | still | tree rules |
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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