Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 14

"Dat des w'at I'm a axin' un you now.

Who acts: w'at · What happens: be · To what, where: un

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 (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	_	10 un	punct
2	Dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 w'at	det
3	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 w'at	det
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 un	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 un	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 un	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 un	det
8	axin	axin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 un	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 axin	case
10	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 un	nsubj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 un	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 un	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that w'at	axin's un			now		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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