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title: "Now you talkin', honey," replied the old man, his earnest face brea… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now you talkin', honey," replied the old man, his earnest face breaking up into little eddies of smiles--"now you talkin' sho. ' Who acts: you, old man, earnest face. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, with its d
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 2

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"Now you talkin', honey," replied the old man, his earnest face breaking up into little eddies of smiles--"now you talkin' sho. '

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**Who acts:** you, old man, earnest face · **What happens:** talkin, reply, break up · **To what, where:** honey, little eddies, sho · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man, earnest face), 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:pg2306:27:2
# text = "Now you talkin', honey," replied the old man, his earnest face breaking up into little eddies of smiles--"now you talkin' sho. '
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	talkin	talkin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eddies	eddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	talkin	talkin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talkin** *in a quote* | present | you | honey |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break up** | gerund | man's earnest face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into little eddies of smiles *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into eddy=Result |
| 4 | **talkin** *in a quote* | present | you | sho |  |  | now |  | 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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