Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 3
No explanation could convey an adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation which Uncle Remus brought to bear upon this wonderful word.
Who acts: explanation, Uncle · What happens: convey, bring, bear · To what, where: adequate idea, intonation
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (explanation, 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 | 2 explanation | det |
| 2 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 convey | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 convey | aux |
| 4 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 6 | adequate | adequate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 convey | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 intonation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 intonation | det |
| 10 | intonation | intonation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 idea | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pronunciation | cc |
| 12 | pronunciation | pronunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 intonation | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 brought | obj |
| 14 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Uncle | flat |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 intonation | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bear | mark |
| 18 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brought | xcomp |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 word | det |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 word | amod |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bear | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 convey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | could | no explanation | a adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Uncle | the intonation and pronunciation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | Uncle not said here | upon this wonderful word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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