Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 37
"'Daddy, w'at you brung--daddy, w'at you brung?'
Who acts: you, Daddy w'at · What happens: brung · To what, where: Daddy w'at
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Daddy w'at), 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 | _ | 13 brung | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'at | punct |
| 3 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 w'at | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'at | punct |
| 5 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brung | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 brung | nsubj |
| 7 | brung | brung | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 daddy | punct |
| 9 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 w'at | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 w'at | punct |
| 11 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brung | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brung | nsubj |
| 13 | brung | brung | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 brung | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 brung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brung in a quote | past | you | Daddy w'at and daddy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | brung in a quote | gerund | Daddy w'at and daddy | 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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