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title: "Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle Remus,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle Remus, dryly. "' Who acts: Hit, Uncle Remus. 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 6

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"Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle Remus, dryly. "'

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**Who acts:** Hit, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** be, speck, say · **To what, where:** de unseasonableness er · **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 (Hit, 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:pg2306:66:6
# text = "Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle Remus, dryly. "'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	unseasonableness	unseasonableness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	speck	speck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	dryly	dryly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Hit | de unseasonableness er |  |  | hour |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speck** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | dryly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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