Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 38
No typographical combination or description could do justice to the guttural sonorousness--the peculiar intonation--which Uncle Remus imparted to this combination.
Who acts: typographical combination, Uncle · What happens: do, impart · To what, where: justice, peculiar intonation
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (typographical combination, Uncle), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 combination | det |
| 2 | typographical | typographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 combination | amod |
| 3 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 description | cc |
| 5 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 combination | conj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sonorousness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sonorousness | det |
| 11 | guttural | guttural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sonorousness | compound |
| 12 | sonorousness | sonorousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 intonation | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 intonation | det |
| 15 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intonation | compound |
| 16 | intonation | intonation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sonorousness | appos |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 imparted | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 imparted | obj |
| 19 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 imparted | nsubj |
| 20 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Uncle | flat |
| 21 | imparted | impart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 intonation | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 combination | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 combination | det |
| 24 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 imparted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | no typographical combination or description | justice | to the guttural sonorousness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | impart | past | Uncle | the peculiar intonation | to this combination | 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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