Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 10

Dat's w'at make me say w'at I duz.

Who acts: w'at, me, I · What happens: make, say, duz · To what, where: me, w'at · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. 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, me, I), 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	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 w'at	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Dat	case
3	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 duz	nsubj
9	duz	duz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 w'at	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	infinitive	Dat's w'at	me	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here	w'at	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic
3	duz	present	I	w'at not said here	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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