Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 96

The story of the Rabbit and the Fox, as told by the Southern negroes, is artistically dramatic in this: it progresses in an orderly way from a beginning to a well-defined conclusion, and is full of striking episodes that suggest the culmination.

Who acts: story, race, episodes · What happens: tell, be, progress, define, strike, suggest · To what, where: story, this, orderly way, episodes, culmination · 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 (story, race, episodes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dramatic	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Rabbit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rabbit	det
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Fox	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fox	det
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 story	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 negroes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 negroes	det
14	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 negroes	amod
15	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 story	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dramatic	cop
18	artistically	artistically	ADV	_	19 dramatic	advmod
19	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 dramatic	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 progresses	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 progresses	nsubj
24	progresses	progress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dramatic	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 way	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 way	det
27	orderly	orderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 progresses	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 beginning	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beginning	det
31	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	37 conclusion	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 conclusion	det
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 defined	advmod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 well	punct
36	defined	define	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 conclusion	amod
37	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 progresses	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 full	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 full	cc
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 full	cop
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 progresses	parataxis
42	of	of	SCONJ	_	43 striking	mark
43	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 full	advcl
44	episodes	episode	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 striking	obj
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 suggest	nsubj
46	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 episodes	acl:relcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 culmination	det
48	culmination	culmination	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 suggest	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 dramatic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		the story of the Rabbit and the Fox not said here		by the Southern negroes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the story of the Rabbit and the Fox		this	artistically, dramatic property	tree rules
3	progress	present	race		a orderly way from a beginning	to a defined conclusion	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	define	participle				well property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present				full property	tree rules
6	strike	gerund		episodes			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent episode=Patient
7	suggest speech: suggest	present	episodes	the culmination			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent culmination=Topic

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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