Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 2
"You er mighty right, I'm lonesome, Brer John Henry.
Who acts: dressed negro · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressed negro), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 er | nsubj |
| 3 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 mighty | advmod |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 right | amod |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lonesome | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lonesome | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lonesome | cop |
| 9 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 right | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 John | punct |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 John | compound |
| 12 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lonesome | parataxis |
| 13 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 John | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a dressed negro = negro | lonesome 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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