Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 4

Miss Sally wuz a readin' in de papers las' Chuseday, an' she say dat's it's a mighty big watchyoumaycollum."

Who acts: Miss, readin · What happens: wuz, say, be · To what, where: readin, de papers, mighty big watchyoumaycollum · 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 (Miss, readin), 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	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	nsubj
2	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Miss	flat
3	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 readin	det
5	readin	readin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 readin	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 papers	case
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 papers	compound
9	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wuz	obl
10	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Chuseday	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 las	case
12	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 papers	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 watchyoumaycollum	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dat	det
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dat	compound
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watchyoumaycollum	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 dat	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 watchyoumaycollum	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 watchyoumaycollum	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 watchyoumaycollum	det
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 watchyoumaycollum	amod
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 watchyoumaycollum	amod
25	watchyoumaycollum	watchyoumaycollum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Chuseday	appos
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wuz	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wuz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wuz	present	Miss	a readin	de papers las's Chuseday	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Miss			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	readin	a say dat's mighty big watchyoumaycollum		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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