Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 72
We have seen enough to know that a very interesting line of investigation has been opened."
Who acts: We · What happens: see, know, open · To what, where: interesting line · 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 seen | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seen | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 opened | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 interesting | advmod |
| 10 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 investigation | case |
| 13 | investigation | investigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 line | nmod |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 opened | aux:pass |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 know | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | We | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | open | present · perfect · passive | a interesting line of investigation | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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