Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 16
"Dat's w'at I wanter know," said Uncle Remus, contemplatively. "
Who acts: Uncle Remus, w'at · What happens: w'at, know, say · 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 (Uncle Remus, w'at), 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 | _ | 7 know | 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 | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 w'at | nsubj |
| 6 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 w'at | conj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 contemplatively | punct |
| 14 | contemplatively | contemplatively | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w'at in a quote | Uncle Remus = remus | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Dat's w'at and wanter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | contemplatively property | 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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