Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 4

"Who dat chunkin' dem chickens dis mawnin?

Who acts: dem chickens · What happens: dat, dis · To what, where: chunkin, mawnin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dem chickens), 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	_	3 dat	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 dat	nsubj
3	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chunkin	chunkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dat	obj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 dis	punct
6	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chickens	compound
7	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dis	nsubj
8	dis	dis	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 chunkin	appos
9	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dis	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dat in a quote	present		chunkin					tree rules
2	dis in a quote	infinitive	dem chickens	mawnin					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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