Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 73

Professor Hartt, in his Amazonian Tortoise Myths, quotes a story from the Riverside Magazine of November, 1868, which will be recognized as a variant of one given by Uncle Remus.

Who acts: Professor · What happens: quote, recognize, give · To what, where: story, Riverside Magazine

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 (Professor), 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	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quotes	nsubj
2	Hartt	Hartt	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Professor	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Myths	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 Myths	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Myths	nmod:poss
6	Amazonian	Amazonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Myths	compound
7	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Myths	compound
8	Myths	Myths	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Professor	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Professor	punct
10	quotes	quote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quotes	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 Magazine	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Magazine	det
15	Riverside	Riverside	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Magazine	compound
16	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 story	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 November	case
18	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Magazine	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 1868	punct
20	1868	1868	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 Magazine	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 recognized	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 recognized	nsubj:pass
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 recognized	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 recognized	aux:pass
25	recognized	recognize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 story	acl
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 variant	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 variant	det
28	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 recognized	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 variant	nmod
31	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 one	acl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 Remus	case
33	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Remus	compound
34	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 given	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 quotes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present	Professor and Professor's Amazonian Tortoise Myths	a story	the Riverside Magazine of November		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic
2	recognize	future · passive		a story		as a variant of one	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as variant=Attribute
3	give	participle				by Uncle Remus	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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