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title: Hit's sweet ter be dere en lissen ter de hymns, En hear dem mo'ners… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's sweet ter be dere en lissen ter de hymns, En hear dem mo'ners a shoutin'-- Dey done reach de place whar der ain't no room Fer enny mo' weepin' en doubtin'. Who acts: sweet ter, En, Fer mo. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. the Big Bethel Chur
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. the Big Bethel Church, sentence 4

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Hit's sweet ter be dere en lissen ter de hymns, En hear dem mo'ners a shoutin'-- Dey done reach de place whar der ain't no room Fer enny mo' weepin' en doubtin'.

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**Who acts:** sweet ter, En, Fer mo · **What happens:** be, hear, do, doubtin · **To what, where:** dem mo'ners, room

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. the Big Bethel Church. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet ter, En, Fer mo), 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:pg2306:44:4
# text = Hit's sweet ter be dere en lissen ter de hymns, En hear dem mo'ners a shoutin'-- Dey done reach de place whar der ain't no room Fer enny mo' weepin' en doubtin'.
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	dere	dere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
8	lissen	lissen	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
11	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	mo'ners	mo'ner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shoutin	shoutin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	whar	whar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	Fer	Fer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	enny	enny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	weepin	weepin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
39	doubtin	doubtin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | infinitive | Hit's sweet ter |  |  |  |  | dere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | infinitive | En | dem mo'ners  a shoutin and Dey done reach |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mo'ner=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **doubtin** |  | Fer mo | no room *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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