Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 4

Those who can recall to mind the peculiar gurgling, jerking, liquid sound made by pouring water from a large jug, or the sound produced by throwing several stones in rapid succession into a pond of deep water, may be able to form a very faint idea of the sound, but it can not be reproduced in print.

Who acts: Those · What happens: recall, mind, jerk, make, pour, produce · To what, where: peculiar gurgling, liquid sound, water, large jug, sound, several stones

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 (Those), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 recall	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 recall	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recall	aux
4	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mind	mark
6	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 recall	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gurgling	det
8	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gurgling	compound
9	gurgling	gurgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mind	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jerking	punct
11	jerking	jerk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 recall	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sound	punct
13	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sound	amod
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jerking	obj
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sound	acl
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 pouring	mark
17	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 made	advcl
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pouring	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 jug	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 jug	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 jug	amod
22	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pouring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sound	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 sound	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sound	det
26	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sound	conj
27	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sound	acl
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 throwing	mark
29	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 produced	advcl
30	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stones	amod
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 throwing	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 succession	case
33	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 succession	amod
34	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throwing	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 pond	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pond	det
37	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throwing	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 water	case
39	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 water	amod
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pond	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 able	punct
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 able	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	cop
44	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 recall	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 form	mark
46	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	xcomp
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 idea	det
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 faint	advmod
49	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 idea	amod
50	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 form	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 sound	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sound	det
53	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 idea	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 reproduced	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 reproduced	cc
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 reproduced	nsubj:pass
57	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 reproduced	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 reproduced	advmod
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 reproduced	aux:pass
60	reproduced	reproduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 recall	conj
61	in	in	ADP	_	62 print	case
62	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 reproduced	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 recall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recall	can	Those				tree rules
2	mind	to-infinitive	Those not said here	the peculiar gurgling			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gurgling=Theme
3	jerk	gerund	Those not said here	liquid sound or the sound			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	make	participle		liquid sound or the sound not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	pour	gerund		water	a large jug		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from jug=Initial_Location
6	produce	participle		the sound not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	throw	gerund		several stones	rapid succession	into a pond of deep water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into pond=Result
8	is	may	Those not said here			able property	tree rules
9	form	to-infinitive	Those not said here	a faint idea of the sound			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme
10	not reproduce	can · passive		idea	print		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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