Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 2

These prejudices were forcibly, as well as ludicrously, illustrated in Atlanta recently.

Who acts: prejudices · What happens: be, illustrate · To what, where: Atlanta

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prejudices), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 prejudices	det
2	prejudices	prejudice	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 illustrated	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 illustrated	advcl
4	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	_	3 were	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 illustrated	punct
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	9 ludicrously	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
9	ludicrously	ludicrously	ADV	_	11 illustrated	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 illustrated	punct
11	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Atlanta	case
13	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 illustrated	obl
14	recently	recently	ADV	_	11 illustrated	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 illustrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	this prejudices not said here					forcibly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	illustrate	participle	this prejudices			Atlanta		ludicrously, recently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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