Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 3

The response of Uncle Remus led to the earnest recital of a piece of unwritten history that must prove interesting to ethnologists.

Who acts: response, unwritten history · What happens: lead, prove, recite · To what, where: piece

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 (response, unwritten history), 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	2 response	det
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Remus	case
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Remus	compound
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 response	nmod
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 recital	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 recital	det
9	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 recital	amod
10	recital	recital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 piece	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recital	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 history	case
15	unwritten	unwritten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 history	amod
16	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 prove	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 prove	aux
19	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 history	acl:relcl
20	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 prove	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 ethnologists	case
22	ethnologists	ethnologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 interesting	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the response of Uncle Remus		to the earnest recital of a piece of unwritten history	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to recital=Patient
2	prove	must	unwritten history		interesting property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	recite			a piece of unwritten history		nom recital «communication 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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