Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 71
Whether the Indians got them from the negroes or from some earlier source is equally uncertain.
Who acts: Indians, earlier source · What happens: get, be · To what, where: stories, negroes
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 (Indians, earlier source), 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 | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indians | det |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 negroes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 negroes | det |
| 8 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 uncertain | cc |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 16 uncertain | mark |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 source | det |
| 12 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 source | amod |
| 13 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uncertain | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 uncertain | cop |
| 15 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 16 uncertain | advmod |
| 16 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 negroes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Indians | stories = story | the negroes | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from negro=Source | |||
| 2 | is | present | some earlier source | equally, uncertain property | 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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