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title: Den Brer Tarrypin begin fer ter holler: — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Tarrypin begin fer ter holler: Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 31

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Den Brer Tarrypin begin fer ter holler:

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** begin · **To what, where:** fer ter holler

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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:pg2306:15:31
# text = Den Brer Tarrypin begin fer ter holler:
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | Den | fer ter holler |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Eventuality |

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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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