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title: Empty smoke-house makes de pullet holler. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Empty smoke-house makes de pullet holler. Who acts: Empty smoke house. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 40

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Empty smoke-house makes de pullet holler.

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**Who acts:** Empty smoke house · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** de pullet holler

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Empty smoke house), 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:pg2306:38:40
# text = Empty smoke-house makes de pullet holler.
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	pullet	pullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Empty smoke house | de pullet holler |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holler=Product |

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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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