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title: "Den dey all laff en holler, kaze it look like Brer B'ar mo' stronge… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den dey all laff en holler, kaze it look like Brer B'ar mo' stronger dan a steer. Who acts: kin, Den dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 15

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"Den dey all laff en holler, kaze it look like Brer B'ar mo' stronger dan a steer.

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**Who acts:** kin, Den dey · **What happens:** holler, look

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kin, Den dey), 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:pg2306:29:15
# text = "Den dey all laff en holler, kaze it look like Brer B'ar mo' stronger dan a steer.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	kaze	kaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	steer	steer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **holler** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | kin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Den dey and all en holler and kaze |  |  |  |  | like Brer | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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