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title: "De ole man's holler'n now sho'," said one of the listeners, gazing… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De ole man's holler'n now sho'," said one of the listeners, gazing with admiration on the venerable old darkey. Who acts: holler'n. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 14

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"De ole man's holler'n now sho'," said one of the listeners, gazing with admiration on the venerable old darkey.

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**Who acts:** holler'n · **What happens:** say, gaze · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holler'n), 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:pg2306:50:14
# text = "De ole man's holler'n now sho'," said one of the listeners, gazing with admiration on the venerable old darkey.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	holler'n	holler'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	listeners	listener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	darkey	darkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | De ole man's holler'n  sho |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | De ole man's holler'n  sho *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with admiration; on the venerable old darkey | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on darkey=Theme |

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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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