Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 11
"Dat's w'at make I say w'at I duz," said Uncle Remus. "
Who acts: w'at, Uncle Remus · What happens: make, say, duz · To what, where: w'at · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'at, Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Dat | case |
| 4 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 duz | nsubj |
| 10 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Remus | compound |
| 15 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Dat's w'at | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Uncle Remus = remus | w'at | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic | ||||
| 3 | duz in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | w'at not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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