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title: He hot fer true, ain't he?" — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He hot fer true, ain't he?" A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 6

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He hot fer true, ain't he?"

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:55:6
# text = He hot fer true, ain't he?"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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