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title: "Co'se, honey," the old man unhesitatingly responded, "dem w'at git… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Co'se, honey," the old man unhesitatingly responded, "dem w'at git ter de pon' time nuff fer ter git der head in de water, de water hit onkink der ha'r. Who acts: dem, time nuff, de water. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 24

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"Co'se, honey," the old man unhesitatingly responded, "dem w'at git ter de pon' time nuff fer ter git der head in de water, de water hit onkink der ha'r.

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**Who acts:** dem, time nuff, de water · **What happens:** respond, ter, git, hit · **To what, where:** old man, onkink der ha'r · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dem, time nuff, de water), 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:pg2306:36:24
# text = "Co'se, honey," the old man unhesitatingly responded, "dem w'at git ter de pon' time nuff fer ter git der head in de water, de water hit onkink der ha'r.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Co'se	Co'se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	unhesitatingly	unhesitatingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
26	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
35	onkink	onkink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | participle |  | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  | unhesitatingly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ter** *in a quote* |  | dem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **git** *in a quote* |  | time nuff |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | de water | onkink der ha'r |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ha'r=Co-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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