Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 2

Dem w'at eats kin say grace.

Who acts: Dem w'at · What happens: eat, say · To what, where: grace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 w'at	compound
2	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	kin	kin	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eats	xcomp
6	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Dem w'at						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Dem w'at not said here	grace				kin property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic

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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