Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 51
Nevertheless, it is told upon the plantations with great gusto, and there are several versions in circulation.
Who acts: several versions · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: story, circulation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (several versions), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 plantations | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plantations | det |
| 8 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gusto | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gusto | amod |
| 11 | gusto | gusto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plantations | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 are | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 are | expl |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 versions | amod |
| 17 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 are | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 circulation | case |
| 19 | circulation | circulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 are | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | story | upon the plantations with great gusto; nevertheless property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | does | present | several versions | circulation; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circulation=Location |
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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