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title: W'en old man Gabrile toot his ho'n, he ain't gwineter hang no sine o… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en old man Gabrile toot his ho'n, he ain't gwineter hang no sine out in de winder-panes, an when ole Fadder Jacob lets down dat lather er his'n you'll be mighty ap' fer ter hear de racket. Who acts: gwineter, ole Fadder Jacob, you, fer ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 22

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W'en old man Gabrile toot his ho'n, he ain't gwineter hang no sine out in de winder-panes, an when ole Fadder Jacob lets down dat lather er his'n you'll be mighty ap' fer ter hear de racket.

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**Who acts:** gwineter, ole Fadder Jacob, you, fer ter · **What happens:** not hang out, let down, be, hear · **To what, where:** sine, de winder panes, lather er, mighty ap, de racket

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gwineter, ole Fadder Jacob, you, fer ter), 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:pg2306:59:22
# text = W'en old man Gabrile toot his ho'n, he ain't gwineter hang no sine out in de winder-panes, an when ole Fadder Jacob lets down dat lather er his'n you'll be mighty ap' fer ter hear de racket.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Gabrile	Gabrile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	toot	toot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ho'n	ho'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	sine	sine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	winder	winder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
25	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Fadder	Fadder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lather	lather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	er	er	X	GW	_	28	obj	_	_
33	his'n	his'n	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
37	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ap	AP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
41	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hang out** | infinitive | gwineter | no sine |  | de winder panes |  | out *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sine=Theme in pane=Destination |
| 2 | **let down** | present | ole Fadder Jacob | lather er his'n mighty ap |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | future | you | mighty ap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | fer ter | de racket |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer racket=Stimulus |

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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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