Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 22
W'at else dey bin doin'?"
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 doin | nsubj |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 W'at | advmod |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doin | compound |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doin | compound |
| 5 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doin | punct |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doin | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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