Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 26

All dis yer meezles bizness is bran'-new ter me.

Who acts: dis · What happens: be · To what, where: bran

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dis), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dis	det
2	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bran	nsubj
3	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bizness	nmod:poss
4	meezles	meezle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bizness	compound
5	bizness	bizness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bran	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bran	cop
7	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 bran	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ter	punct
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ter	amod
11	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bran	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ter	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all dis	bran and new ter me					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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