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title: He feel mighty lonesome, en he feel mighty mad, Brer Rabbit did. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He feel mighty lonesome, en he feel mighty mad, Brer Rabbit did. Who acts: dey, en, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 27

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He feel mighty lonesome, en he feel mighty mad, Brer Rabbit did.

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**Who acts:** dey, en, Brer · **What happens:** feel, do · **To what, where:** mighty lonesome

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, en, Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:22:27
# text = He feel mighty lonesome, en he feel mighty mad, Brer Rabbit did.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lonesome	lonesome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | dey | mighty lonesome |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lonesome=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | en |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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