Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 79

It may be well to state that there are different versions of all the stories--the shrewd narrators of the mythology of the old plantation adapting themselves with ready tact to the years, tastes, and expectations of their juvenile audiences.

Who acts: version, different versions, old plantation · What happens: be, adapt, expect · To what, where: narrators, juvenile audiences

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (version, different versions, old plantation), 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	6 state	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 state	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 state	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 state	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 state	case
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 are	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 state	advcl
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 versions	amod
11	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 stories	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 stories	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stories	det
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 versions	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 narrators	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 narrators	det
18	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 narrators	amod
19	narrators	narrator	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stories	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mythology	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mythology	det
22	mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 narrators	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 plantation	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 plantation	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plantation	amod
26	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mythology	nmod
27	adapting	adapt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 plantation	acl
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 adapting	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 tact	case
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tact	amod
31	tact	tact	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 adapting	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 years	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 years	det
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 adapting	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tastes	punct
36	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 years	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 expectations	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 expectations	cc
39	expectations	expectation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 audiences	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 audiences	nmod:poss
42	juvenile	juvenile	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 audiences	compound
43	audiences	audience	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 expectations	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 state	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	version				to state; well property	tree rules
2	does	present	different versions of all stories and the shrewd narrators of the mythology of the old plantation		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	adapt	gerund	the old plantation not said here	narrators = narrator		year	with ready tact	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
4	expect			expectations's juvenile audiences				nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=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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