Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 12
The little boy made no further attempt to justify his conduct.
Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: make, justify, conduct · To what, where: further attempt, conduct
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy), 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 | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 attempt | det |
| 6 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attempt | amod |
| 7 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 justify | mark |
| 9 | justify | justify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attempt | acl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 11 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 justify | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the little boy | no further attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product | ||||
| 2 | justify speech: other | to-infinitive | the little boy not said here | boy's conduct | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conduct | boy | nom conduct «act 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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