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title: "Brer Tarrypin he keep on holler'n: — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brer Tarrypin he keep on holler'n: Who acts: Brer Tarrypin. 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 35

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"Brer Tarrypin he keep on holler'n:

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**Who acts:** Brer Tarrypin · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** holler'n

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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 (Brer Tarrypin), 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:pg2306:15:35
# text = "Brer Tarrypin he keep on holler'n:
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	holler'n	holler'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brer Tarrypin |  |  | holler'n |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on holler'n=Location |

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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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