Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 6

Dar now! w'at I bin sayin'?

Who acts: I · What happens: bin · To what, where: sayin

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 (I), 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	Dar	Dar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 w'at	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 w'at	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 w'at	punct
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bin	nsubj
6	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 w'at	acl:relcl
7	sayin	sayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 w'at	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	I	sayin					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sayin=Theme

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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