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title: "Dat I ain't," responded the other; "I ain't hear talk er Jem sence… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat I ain't," responded the other; "I ain't hear talk er Jem sence he cut loose fum de chain-gang. Who acts: Dat. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 5

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"Dat I ain't," responded the other; "I ain't hear talk er Jem sence he cut loose fum de chain-gang.

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**Who acts:** Dat · **What happens:** respond, talk, fum · **To what, where:** other, Jem sence, chain gang · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat), 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:pg2306:47:5
# text = "Dat I ain't," responded the other; "I ain't hear talk er Jem sence he cut loose fum de chain-gang.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hear	hear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
18	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | Dat | the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dat *not said here* | Jem sence |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fum** *in a quote* | past | Dat | chain gang |  |  |  | loose *property* | 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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