Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 16

"How's dat?" asked some one.

Who acts: dat · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: dat, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat), 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	_	4 dat	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dat	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dat	cop
4	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dat	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dat	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		dat					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	dat	some one					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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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