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title: "Dat's needer yer ner dar," responded Uncle Remus. " — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dat's needer yer ner dar," responded Uncle Remus. " Who acts: needer, yer ner dar. 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 35

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"Dat's needer yer ner dar," responded Uncle Remus. "

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**Who acts:** needer, yer ner dar · **What happens:** dar, respond · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus · **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 (needer, yer ner dar), 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:pg2306:60:35
# text = "Dat's needer yer ner dar," responded Uncle Remus. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	"	"	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 | **dar** *in a quote* |  | Dat's needer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | yer ner dar | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remus=Topic |

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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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