Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 27
He feel mighty lonesome, en he feel mighty mad, Brer Rabbit did.
Who acts: dey, en, Brer · What happens: feel, do · To what, where: mighty lonesome
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, en, Brer), 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 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lonesome | amod |
| 4 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feel | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 feel | conj |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mad | amod |
| 10 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | infinitive | dey | mighty lonesome | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lonesome=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | en | mad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Brer | vn act-114-1 «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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