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title: "Den ole Brer Bull-Frog, he holler back: 'Don'-you-ber-lieve-'im! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den ole Brer Bull-Frog, he holler back: 'Don'-you-ber-lieve-'im! Who acts: Frog. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 22

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"Den ole Brer Bull-Frog, he holler back: 'Don'-you-ber-lieve-'im!

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**Who acts:** Frog · **What happens:** holler back

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog), 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:pg2306:17:22
# text = "Den ole Brer Bull-Frog, he holler back: 'Don'-you-ber-lieve-'im!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Bull	Bull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ber	ber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lieve	lieve	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **holler back** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | Frog |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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