Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 49
Well, dat des 'zackly de way dey duz.
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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 zackly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 des | compound |
| 4 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zackly | nsubj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 zackly | punct |
| 6 | zackly | zackly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 way | compound |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dey | compound |
| 9 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 duz | compound |
| 10 | duz | duz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zackly | dep |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 zackly | 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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