Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 2

The silence of the little boy verified the old man's recollection.

Who acts: silence, old man · What happens: verify, silence, recollect · To what, where: recollection, little boy

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, old man), 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 silence	det
2	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verified	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 boy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 silence	nmod
7	verified	verify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recollection	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	recollection	recollection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verified	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 verified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	verify	past	the silence of the little boy	the old man's recollection	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot recollection=Topic
2	silence			the little boy	nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient
3	recollect		the old man		nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=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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