Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 10

"Dat's Tarrypin talk, dat is.

Who acts: Tarrypin talk, Dat · What happens: be, talk

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tarrypin talk, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 talk	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dat	case
4	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 talk	compound
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dat	punct
7	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	conj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	Dat's Tarrypin talk and dat						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk in a quote		Dat						nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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