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title: "Hit's all des dat away, honey," continued the old man, with the air… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit's all des dat away, honey," continued the old man, with the air of one who had just given an important piece of information. " Who acts: Hit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 11

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"Hit's all des dat away, honey," continued the old man, with the air of one who had just given an important piece of information. "

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**Who acts:** Hit · **What happens:** continue, give · **To what, where:** old man, important piece

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit), 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:pg2306:31:11
# text = "Hit's all des dat away, honey," continued the old man, with the air of one who had just given an important piece of information. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
5	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dat	that	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Hit and honey | the old man |  |  |  | with the air of one | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | a important piece of information |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient piece=Theme |

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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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