Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 10
"How wuz dat, Brer Remus?"
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dat | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wuz | advmod |
| 3 | wuz | wuz | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dat | amod |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dat | 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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