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title: "Oh, hit's out yan," replied the old man, motioning his head as if i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, hit's out yan," replied the old man, motioning his head as if it was just beyond the iron gates of the depot. " Who acts: old man, head. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 10

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"Oh, hit's out yan," replied the old man, motioning his head as if it was just beyond the iron gates of the depot. "

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**Who acts:** old man, head · **What happens:** hit, be, reply, motion · **To what, where:** head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, head), 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:pg2306:57:10
# text = "Oh, hit's out yan," replied the old man, motioning his head as if it was just beyond the iron gates of the depot. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	yan	yan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	motioning	motion	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	depot	depot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | yan *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **motion** | gerund | the old man *not said here* | man's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | head |  |  |  |  | as the iron gates; of the depot | 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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