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title: Show me a Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show you a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Show me a Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show you a nigger dat's marked for de chain-gang. Who acts: you, Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 11

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Show me a Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show you a nigger dat's marked for de chain-gang.

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**Who acts:** you, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** show, continue, mark · **To what, where:** Mobile nigger, me, old man, nigger dat, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:67:11
# text = Show me a Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show you a nigger dat's marked for de chain-gang.
1	Show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | imperative | you *not said here* | a Mobile nigger | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **show** *in a quote* | future | Uncle Remus *= remus* | a nigger dat | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dat=Topic |
| 4 | **mark** *in a quote* | participle |  | a nigger dat *not said here* |  |  |  | for de chain gang | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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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