Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 12

Dat w'at make I say w'at I duz.

Who acts: I · 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, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. 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	Dat	dat	ADV	Typo=Yes	3 make	advmod
2	w'at	w'at	X	_	1 Dat	goeswith
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 duz	nsubj
8	duz	duz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 w'at	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present			dat property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	I	w'at		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic
3	duz	present	I	w'at 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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