Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 3
"Dat w'at make I say w'at I duz--dat w'at keep me grum'lin' w'en I goes in cullud fokes s'ciety.
Who acts: Dat w'at, young man · What happens: make, say, duz, keep, go · To what, where: w'at, young man, s'ciety, cullud fokes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat w'at, young man), 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 make | punct |
| 2 | Dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w'at | compound |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 duz | nsubj |
| 9 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 11 | dat | dat | X | _ | 13 keep | vocative |
| 12 | w'at | w'at | X | _ | 11 dat | goeswith |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | grum'lin | grum'lin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 w'en | compound |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 w'en | punct |
| 17 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 goes | nsubj |
| 19 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fokes | case |
| 21 | cullud | cullud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fokes | compound |
| 22 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 goes | obl |
| 23 | s'ciety | s'ciety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Dat w'at | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | a young man = man | w'at | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic | ||||
| 3 | duz in a quote | present | a young man = man | w'at not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Dat w'at not said here | a young man = man | dat vocative | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme w'en=Attribute | |||
| 5 | go in a quote | present | a young man = man | s'ciety | cullud fokes | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location w'en=Theme |
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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