Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 97

It seems to me to be to a certain extent allegorical, albeit such an interpretation may be unreasonable.

Who acts: It, interpretation · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: me

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 (It, interpretation), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seems	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	11 allegorical	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 allegorical	cop
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 extent	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 extent	det
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 extent	amod
10	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 allegorical	obl
11	allegorical	allegorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unreasonable	punct
13	albeit	albeit	SCONJ	_	19 unreasonable	mark
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 interpretation	det:predet
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 interpretation	det
16	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 unreasonable	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 unreasonable	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 unreasonable	cop
19	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 allegorical	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It	me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			to a certain extent; allegorical property	tree rules
3	is	may	such interpretation		unreasonable 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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