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title: "My ole 'oman say de Ole Boy wouldn't a foun' a riper nigger, ef he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "My ole 'oman say de Ole Boy wouldn't a foun' a riper nigger, ef he wer' ter scour de country fum Ferginny ter de Alabam'" Who acts: ole, riper nigger, Ole Boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, with its dependency tree and th
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 23

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"My ole 'oman say de Ole Boy wouldn't a foun' a riper nigger, ef he wer' ter scour de country fum Ferginny ter de Alabam'"

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**Who acts:** ole, riper nigger, Ole Boy · **What happens:** say, scour, not fum · **To what, where:** de, Ferginny ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ole, riper nigger, Ole Boy), 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:pg2306:66:23
# text = "My ole 'oman say de Ole Boy wouldn't a foun' a riper nigger, ef he wer' ter scour de country fum Ferginny ter de Alabam'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	foun	foun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	riper	riper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	wer	wer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	scour	scour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	fum	fum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
28	Ferginny	Ferginny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	advmod	_	_
31	Alabam	Alabam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | My ole and oman | de |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scour** *in a quote* |  | a riper nigger and ef |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fum** *in a quote* | would | Ole Boy | Ferginny ter |  |  |  |  | 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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