Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 9
*1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught from the whites, their origin is very remote.
Who acts: origin · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: adaptations, songs, whites
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (origin), 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 | 12 caught | discourse |
| 3 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 caught | mark |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 adaptations | det |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adaptations | cop |
| 6 | adaptations | adaptation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 songs | case |
| 8 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 adaptations | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 negroes | det |
| 10 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 songs | conj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 whites | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 whites | det |
| 15 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 caught | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remote | punct |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 origin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remote | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 remote | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 remote | advmod |
| 21 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 caught | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this adaptations | songs and the negroes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · perfect · passive | this adaptations | the whites | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from white=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | present | adaptations's origin | remote property | 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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