--- title: "Tooby sho de pa'm er my han's w'ite, honey," he quietly remarked, "… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Tooby sho de pa'm er my han's w'ite, honey," he quietly remarked, "en, w'en it come ter dat, dey wuz a time w'en all de w'ite folks 'uz black--blacker dan me, kaze I done bin yer so long dat I bin sorter bleach out." Who acts: Tooby, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/) / 4 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 4 "Tooby sho de pa'm er my han's w'ite, honey," he quietly remarked, "en, w'en it come ter dat, dey wuz a time w'en all de w'ite folks 'uz black--blacker dan me, kaze I done bin yer so long dat I bin sorter bleach out." **Who acts:** Tooby, en · **What happens:** be, remark, come, w'en, do, bin · **To what, where:** dat, time, kaze, yer, sorter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tooby, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:36:4 # text = "Tooby sho de pa'm er my han's w'ite, honey," he quietly remarked, "en, w'en it come ter dat, dey wuz a time w'en all de w'ite folks 'uz black--blacker dan me, kaze I done bin yer so long dat I bin sorter bleach out." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Tooby Tooby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 sho sho X FW _ 5 compound _ _ 4 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 5 pa pa NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 er er ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 w'ite w'ite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 come come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 26 ter ter ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 w'en w'en VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 all all ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 35 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 40 nsubj _ _ 36 w'ite w'ite NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 ' 's PART POS _ 37 case _ SpaceAfter=No 39 uz uz NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 -- -- PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 blacker black ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 conj _ _ 43 dan dan X FW Foreign=Yes 42 conj _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 kaze kaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 bin bin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 50 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 57 advmod _ _ 53 dat dat SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 bin bin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 advcl _ _ 56 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 57 bleach bleach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 58 out out ADP RP _ 57 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tooby | | | | | er my han's w'ite and honey | tree rules | | 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | Tooby | | | | | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | en and w'en | dat and dey wuz and kaze | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **w'en** *in a quote* | participle | | a time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Tooby | kaze *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bin** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tooby *not said here* | yer | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yer=Theme | | 7 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Tooby | sorter | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sorter=Theme | | 8 | **bleach out** *in a quote* | present | Tooby *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/36/5/) - ↑ back to [XXXIII. 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