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title: Niggers bin prom'nadin' by my house all dis summer, holdin' dere hea… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Niggers bin prom'nadin' by my house all dis summer, holdin' dere heads high up an' de w'ites er dere eyeballs shinin' in de sun. Dey wuz too bigitty fer ter look over de gyardin' palm's. ' Who acts: Niggers, holdin dere heads, de w'ites, Dey wuz. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 55

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Niggers bin prom'nadin' by my house all dis summer, holdin' dere heads high up an' de w'ites er dere eyeballs shinin' in de sun. Dey wuz too bigitty fer ter look over de gyardin' palm's. '

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**Who acts:** Niggers, holdin dere heads, de w'ites, Dey wuz · **What happens:** bin, dis, high up, eyeball, look · **To what, where:** prom'nadin, de w'ites, shinin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niggers, holdin dere heads, de w'ites, Dey wuz), 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:pg2306:60:55
# text = Niggers bin prom'nadin' by my house all dis summer, holdin' dere heads high up an' de w'ites er dere eyeballs shinin' in de sun. Dey wuz too bigitty fer ter look over de gyardin' palm's. '
1	Niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	prom'nadin	prom'nadin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	dis	dis	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	holdin	holdin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
14	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	high	high	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	w'ites	w'ite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
22	er	er	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	24	advmod	_	_
23	dere	dere	X	NN	_	22	goeswith	_	_
24	eyeballs	eyeball	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	shinin	shinin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
30	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	bigitty	bigitty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
39	gyardin	gyardin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Niggers | prom'nadin |  |  |  | by my house | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent prom'nadin=Theme |
| 2 | **dis** | present | Niggers *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **high up** | present | holdin dere heads | a de w'ites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eyeball** | present | a de w'ites *not said here* | shinin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | present | Dey wuz |  |  |  | sunday | over de gyardin and palm | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over gyardin=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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