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title: "Col'!" exclaimed Uncle Remus; "hit got pas' col' on der quarter str… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Col'!" exclaimed Uncle Remus; "hit got pas' col' on der quarter stretch. Who acts: Col. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 11

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"Col'!" exclaimed Uncle Remus; "hit got pas' col' on der quarter stretch.

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**Who acts:** Col · **What happens:** exclaim, hit, get · **To what, where:** Uncle, got pas, der quarter stretch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Col), 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:pg2306:66:11
# text = "Col'!" exclaimed Uncle Remus; "hit got pas' col' on der quarter stretch.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	compound	_	_
13	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
19	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Col | Uncle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | past |  | got pas |  | der quarter stretch |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent pa=Patient col=Result |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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