Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 2

"W'at doin's is dat, Brer Ab?"

What happens: be · To what, where: doin dat

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 dat	punct
2	W'at	W'at	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 doin	compound
3	doin	doin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
4	's	's	PART	_	3 doin	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	cop
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Brer	punct
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dat	appos
9	Ab	Ab	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Brer	flat
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dat	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		doin dat					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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