Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 35
Dat's me, an' dat's what you kin tell um.
Who acts: dat, you · What happens: be, kin, tell · To what, where: um · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (dat, you), 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 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dat | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Dat | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dat | det |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 what | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | cop |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Dat | appos |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kin | nsubj |
| 11 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kin | xcomp |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a dat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kin | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | um | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient |
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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