Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 62
"Dat w'at make I say w'at I duz, honey.
Who acts: Dat w'at, little boy · What happens: make, say, duz · To what, where: w'at · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat w'at, little boy), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w'at | compound |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 duz | nsubj |
| 9 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 honey | punct |
| 11 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 w'at | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Dat w'at | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the little boy = boy | w'at and honey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic | ||||
| 3 | duz in a quote | present | the little boy = boy | w'at and honey not said here | 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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