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title: "Well, now, here!" exclaimed the young man, in a dramatic tone, "wha… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, now, here!" exclaimed the young man, in a dramatic tone, "what are you giving us now? Who acts: young man, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 5

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"Well, now, here!" exclaimed the young man, in a dramatic tone, "what are you giving us now?

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**Who acts:** young man, you · **What happens:** exclaim, give · **To what, where:** dramatic tone, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, you), 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:pg2306:51:5
# text = "Well, now, here!" exclaimed the young man, in a dramatic tone, "what are you giving us now?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the young man |  |  | a dramatic tone | now |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  | us |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=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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