---
title: *In the days of slavery, the religious services held by the negroes… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: *In the days of slavery, the religious services held by the negroes who accompanied their owners to the camp-meetings were marvels of earnestness and devotion. Who acts: negroes, camp meetings. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *, w
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [II. Camp-meeting Song \*](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/) / 11

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\*In the days of slavery, the religious services held by the negroes who accompanied their owners to the camp-meetings were marvels of earnestness and devotion.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** negroes, camp meetings · **What happens:** hold, accompany, be · **To what, where:** religious services, owners

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song \*. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negroes, camp meetings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:40:11
# text = *In the days of slavery, the religious services held by the negroes who accompanied their owners to the camp-meetings were marvels of earnestness and devotion.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  | the religious services *not said here* |  |  |  | by the negroes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by negro=Location |
| 2 | **accompany** | past | the negroes | negroes's owners |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the camp meetings |  |  |  |  | to marvels; of earnestness and devotion | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/10/)
- next →: [III. Corn-shucking Song, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/1/)
- ↑ back to [II. Camp-meeting Song \*](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/)