Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 15
"Dat w'at he said--I-doom-er-ker-kum-mer-ker!
Who acts: w'at · What happens: say, ker · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (w'at), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 w'at | det |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 ker | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ker | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 I | punct |
| 9 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 er | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 doom | punct |
| 11 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ker | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ker | punct |
| 13 | ker | ker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ker | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kum | punct |
| 15 | kum | kum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ker | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kum | punct |
| 17 | mer | mer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ker | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ker | punct |
| 19 | ker | ker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | past | that w'at | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ker in a quote | that w'at = w'at | 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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