Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 2

He discovered that the palms of the old man's hands were as white as his own, and the fact was such a source of wonder that he at last made it the subject of remark.

Who acts: boy, palms, fact · What happens: discover, be, make · To what, where: source, that

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, palms, fact), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discovered	nsubj
2	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 white	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palms	det
5	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 white	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 hands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 palms	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 white	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 white	advmod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 discovered	ccomp
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 own	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 own	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 white	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 source	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 source	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fact	det
21	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 source	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 source	cop
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 source	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 source	det
25	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 discovered	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wonder	case
27	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 source	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 made	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 he	nmod
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 source	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 subject	det
35	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 remark	case
37	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 subject	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	discover	past	boy			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the palms of the old man's hands		as boy's own; white property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the fact	such source	of wonder	tree rules
4	make	past	boy	that		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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