Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 27

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct
2	Hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 exclaimed	ccomp
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hear	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
10	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	12 hear	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 exclaimed	conj
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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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