Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 28

In one of these I think I have traced the source of the Tar Baby incident in "Uncle Remus."

Who acts: one, I · What happens: think, trace · To what, where: source · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 think	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 one	nmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 traced	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 traced	aux
9	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 think	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 source	det
11	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 traced	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 incident	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 incident	det
14	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Baby	compound
15	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 incident	compound
16	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 source	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 Remus	case
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Remus	punct
19	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Remus	compound
20	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 incident	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 traced	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	one of these						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	trace	present · perfect	I	the source of the Baby incident in Uncle Remus					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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