Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 12

"Dat's w'at dey tells me," continued Uncle Remus. "

Who acts: w'at dey · What happens: tell, continue · To what, where: Dey, Uncle Remus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. 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 dey), 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	_	6 tells	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dey	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dat	case
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dey	compound
5	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	ccomp
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Remus	compound
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 continued	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Dat's w'at dey		Dey				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	continue	past		Uncle Remus					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=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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