Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 88

I wish you mighty well! --Mr. Killdee!

Who acts: I · What happens: wish · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wish	iobj
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wish	xcomp
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wish	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 Killdee	punct
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Killdee	nmod:desc
9	Killdee	Killdee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wish	parataxis
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I		you			mighty, well property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=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: «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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