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title: "Hol' on dar, Uncle Remus; you ain't tell me 'bout Jim," exclaimed t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hol' on dar, Uncle Remus; you ain't tell me 'bout Jim," exclaimed the Jonesboro negro. Who acts: you, Jonesboro negro. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 13

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"Hol' on dar, Uncle Remus; you ain't tell me 'bout Jim," exclaimed the Jonesboro negro.

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**Who acts:** you, Jonesboro negro · **What happens:** not tell, exclaim · **To what, where:** Jonesboro negro · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jonesboro negro), 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:pg2306:47:13
# text = "Hol' on dar, Uncle Remus; you ain't tell me 'bout Jim," exclaimed the Jonesboro negro.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hol	Hol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jim	Jim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* |  | you |  | the Jonesboro negro *= negro* |  |  | bout Jim | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the Jonesboro negro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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