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title: Den dey hear de little bird singin', en dish yer's de song w'at he s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den dey hear de little bird singin', en dish yer's de song w'at he sing: Who acts: Den dey, little bird singin, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 34

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Den dey hear de little bird singin', en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:

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**Who acts:** Den dey, little bird singin, dey · **What happens:** hear, dish, sing

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den dey, little bird singin, dey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:25:34
# text = Den dey hear de little bird singin', en dish yer's de song w'at he sing:
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	singin	singin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	PART	POS	_	7	dep	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Den dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dish** |  | little bird singin |  |  |  |  | 's yer | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* |  | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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