Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 14
"Dat's w'at I'm a gittin' at, boss," said Uncle Remus, smiling a feeble smile. "
Who acts: w'at, gittin · What happens: be, say, smile · To what, where: gittin, boss, feeble smile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. 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, gittin), 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 | _ | 8 gittin | 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 | 8 gittin | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gittin | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gittin | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gittin | det |
| 8 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 gittin | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 boss | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boss | punct |
| 12 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gittin | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gittin | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gittin | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Remus | compound |
| 17 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smiling | punct |
| 19 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 smile | det |
| 21 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 smile | amod |
| 22 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smiling | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Dat's w'at | a gittin | boss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a gittin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | a gittin not said here | a feeble smile | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=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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