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title: "'Daddy'--all Ole Miss's chilluns call me daddy--'Daddy,' he say, ''… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Daddy'--all Ole Miss's chilluns call me daddy--'Daddy,' he say, ''pears like dere's gwineter be mighty rough times 'roun' yer. Who acts: chilluns, en, pears. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 75

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"'Daddy'--all Ole Miss's chilluns call me daddy--'Daddy,' he say, ''pears like dere's gwineter be mighty rough times 'roun' yer.

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**Who acts:** chilluns, en, pears · **What happens:** call, say, be · **To what, where:** Daddy, yer, mighty roun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chilluns, en, pears), 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:pg2306:46:75
# text = "'Daddy'--all Ole Miss's chilluns call me daddy--'Daddy,' he say, ''pears like dere's gwineter be mighty rough times 'roun' yer.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	''	''	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | all Ole Miss's chilluns | Daddy |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | en | yer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yer=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | pears like dere's gwineter | rough times's mighty roun |  |  | time |  | 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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