Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 6

He thought Uncle Remus was making him the victim of one of his jokes; but the youngster was never more mistaken.

Who acts: boy, Uncle Remus, youngster · What happens: think, make, not be, joke · To what, where: victim, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, Uncle Remus, youngster), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 making	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 making	aux
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 victim	det
9	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 victim	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 jokes	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 jokes	nmod:poss
14	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mistaken	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 mistaken	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youngster	det
18	youngster	youngster	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mistaken	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mistaken	cop
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 mistaken	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 mistaken	amod
22	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	boy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	past · progressive	Uncle Remus	the victim of one of boy's jokes	boy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary victim=Product
3	not is	past	the youngster			mistaken property	tree rules
4	joke		boy				nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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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