Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 17

But dat's w'at Miss Sally wuz a readin' in de paper.

Who acts: w'at · What happens: wuz · To what, where: readin, de paper

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 wuz	cc
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 w'at	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dat	case
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wuz	nsubj
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sally	compound
6	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 w'at	appos
7	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 readin	det
9	readin	readin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wuz	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 readin	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 paper	case
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 paper	compound
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wuz	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wuz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wuz	present	dat's w'at	a readin		de paper			tree rules

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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