Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 49
*1 This story is popular on the coast and among the rice- plantations, and, since the publication of some of the animal-myths in the newspapers, I have received a version of it from a planter in southwest Georgia; but it seems to me to be an intruder among the genuine myth-stories of the negroes.
Who acts: story, I, it · What happens: be, receive, seem · To what, where: coast, version, planter, me, intruder
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, I, it), 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 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 popular | discourse |
| 3 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 popular | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 popular | cop |
| 6 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 popular | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plantations | cc |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 plantations | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plantations | det |
| 13 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plantations | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rice | punct |
| 15 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 coast | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 publication | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 publication | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 publication | punct |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 21 publication | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 publication | det |
| 21 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 popular | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 some | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 publication | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 myths | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 myths | det |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 myths | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 animal | punct |
| 28 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 some | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 newspapers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 newspapers | det |
| 31 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 myths | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 received | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 received | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 received | aux |
| 35 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 publication | acl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 version | det |
| 37 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 received | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 version | nmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 planter | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 planter | det |
| 42 | planter | planter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 received | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 southwest | case |
| 44 | southwest | Southwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 planter | nmod |
| 45 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 southwest | flat |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 seems | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 seems | cc |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 seems | nsubj |
| 49 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 popular | conj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 me | case |
| 51 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 seems | obl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 intruder | mark |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 intruder | cop |
| 54 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 intruder | det |
| 55 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 seems | xcomp |
| 56 | among | among | ADP | _ | 61 stories | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 stories | det |
| 58 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 stories | amod |
| 59 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 stories | compound |
| 60 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 59 myth | punct |
| 61 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 intruder | nmod |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 negroes | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 negroes | det |
| 64 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 stories | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 popular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this story | the coast and the rice plantations | popular property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | present · perfect | I | a version of story | a planter in southwest | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent version=Theme from planter=Source | |||
| 3 | seem | present | it | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a intruder | among the genuine myth stories of the negroes | 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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