Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 23

"Dat's so, honey," said Uncle Remus, greatly mollified; "dat's so, kaze by now some er dem yuther niggers 'ud er done had her lit up.

Who acts: Dat, honey, kaze · What happens: be, say, mollify, do, have, lit up · To what, where: kaze, dat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat, honey, kaze), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 so	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 so	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honey	punct
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honey	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 honey	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mollified	punct
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	14 mollified	advmod
14	mollified	mollify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dat	punct
17	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 so	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 so	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	33 had	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kaze	punct
21	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
22	by	by	ADP	_	26 dem	case
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 dem	advmod
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 dem	det
25	er	er	X	_	26 dem	compound
26	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kaze	nmod
27	yuther	yuth	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 niggers	amod
28	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 er	nmod:poss
29	'	's	PART	_	28 niggers	case
30	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 er	compound
31	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dem	nmod
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 kaze	acl
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	obj
35	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 had	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 lit	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Dat		so property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	honey			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	mollify	participle	honey not said here		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	dat		so property	tree rules
5	do in a quote	participle		kaze by some er dem yuther niggers's ud er not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have in a quote	past	kaze by some er dem yuther niggers's ud er	dat		tree rules
7	lit up in a quote	participle	dat 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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