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title: I hear dat baby cryin', en bimeby Miss Sally'll fly up en be a holle… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I hear dat baby cryin', en bimeby Miss Sally'll fly up en be a holler'n atter you" Who acts: I, Miss. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 69

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I hear dat baby cryin', en bimeby Miss Sally'll fly up en be a holler'n atter you"

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**Who acts:** I, Miss · **What happens:** hear, fly up, be · **To what, where:** dat baby, holler'n atter

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Miss), 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:pg2306:37:69
# text = I hear dat baby cryin', en bimeby Miss Sally'll fly up en be a holler'n atter you"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	cryin	cryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PART	POS	_	5	dep	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	holler'n	holler'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I | dat baby |  |  |  | cryin en bimeby *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly up** | future | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a holler'n atter |  |  |  |  | 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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