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title: "'Dat's de fier shinin' on it,' sez I. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Dat's de fier shinin' on it,' sez I. Who acts: de fier shinin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 109

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"'Dat's de fier shinin' on it,' sez I.

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**Who acts:** de fier shinin · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** I. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de fier shinin), 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:pg2306:46:109
# text = "'Dat's de fier shinin' on it,' sez I.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	shinin	shinin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	I.	I.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Dat's de fier shinin on axe | I. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=Topic |

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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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