Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 74

I venture to append it here, with some necessary verbal and phonetic alterations, in order to give the reader an idea of the difference between the dialect of the cotton plantations, as used by Uncle Remus, and the lingo in vogue on the rice plantations and Sea Islands of the South Atlantic States:

Who acts: I · What happens: venture, append, give, use · To what, where: Magazine, reader

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 venture	nsubj
2	venture	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 append	mark
4	append	append	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 venture	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 append	obj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 append	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 alterations	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	14 alterations	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 alterations	det
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 alterations	amod
11	verbal	verbal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 alterations	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 phonetic	cc
13	phonetic	phonetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 verbal	conj
14	alterations	alteration	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 venture	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
16	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 give	mark
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 in	fixed
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 venture	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reader	det
21	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 idea	det
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 difference	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 difference	det
26	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 idea	nmod
27	between	between	ADP	_	29 dialect	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dialect	det
29	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 difference	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 plantations	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plantations	det
32	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plantations	compound
33	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dialect	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 used	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 used	mark
36	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 give	parataxis
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 Remus	case
38	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Remus	compound
39	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 used	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lingo	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lingo	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lingo	det
43	lingo	lingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 venture	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 vogue	case
45	vogue	vogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lingo	nmod
46	on	on	ADP	_	49 plantations	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 plantations	det
48	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 plantations	compound
49	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lingo	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 Islands	cc
51	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Islands	compound
52	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	49 plantations	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	57 States	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 States	det
55	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Atlantic	compound
56	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 States	compound
57	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	52 Islands	nmod
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	venture	present	I			with some necessary verbal alterations	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	append	to-infinitive	I not said here	Magazine	here		tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive		the reader			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient idea=Theme
4	use	participle				by Uncle Remus	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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