Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 9
He ain't sick, an' he ain't bin sick.
Who acts: Dat · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat), 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 | 4 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sick | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sick | advmod |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bin | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bin | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 bin | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bin | nsubj |
| 9 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bin | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bin | advmod |
| 11 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sick | conj |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bin | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Dat | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Dat | bin, sick property | tree rules |
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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