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title: "Dat's so, honey," said Uncle Remus, greatly mollified; "dat's so, k… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat's so, honey," said Uncle Remus, greatly mollified; "dat's so, kaze by now some er dem yuther niggers 'ud er done had her lit up. Who acts: Dat, honey, kaze. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 23

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"Dat's so, honey," said Uncle Remus, greatly mollified; "dat's so, kaze by now some er dem yuther niggers 'ud er done had her lit up.

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**Who acts:** Dat, honey, kaze · **What happens:** be, say, mollify, do, have, lit up · **To what, where:** kaze, dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat, honey, kaze), 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:pg2306:30:23
# text = "Dat's so, honey," said Uncle Remus, greatly mollified; "dat's so, kaze by now some er dem yuther niggers 'ud er done had her lit up.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	mollified	mollify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	er	er	X	FW	_	26	compound	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	yuther	yuth	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	'	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dat |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | honey |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mollify** | participle | honey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dat |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | kaze by some er dem  yuther niggers's ud er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | kaze by some er dem  yuther niggers's ud er | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lit up** *in a quote* | participle | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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