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title: "Hear dat!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, triumphantly "hear dat! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hear dat!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, triumphantly "hear dat! Who acts: Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 27

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"Hear dat!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, triumphantly "hear dat!

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**Who acts:** Uncle Remus · **What happens:** hear, exclaim · **To what, where:** dat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:60:27
# text = "Hear dat!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, triumphantly "hear dat!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | dat |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | Uncle Remus *not said here* | dat |  |  |  | triumphantly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus |

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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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