--- title: "I LAY yo' ma got comp'ny," said Uncle Remus, as the little boy ente… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "I LAY yo' ma got comp'ny," said Uncle Remus, as the little boy entered the old man's door with a huge piece of mince-pie in his hand, 'en ef she ain't got comp'ny, den she done gone en drap de cubberd key som'ers whar you done run up wid it." Who acts: Uncle Remus, yo, little boy, Remus. A sentence --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/14/) / 1 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 1 "I LAY yo' ma got comp'ny," said Uncle Remus, as the little boy entered the old man's door with a huge piece of mince-pie in his hand, 'en ef she ain't got comp'ny, den she done gone en drap de cubberd key som'ers whar you done run up wid it." **Who acts:** Uncle Remus, yo, little boy, Remus, den, cubberd key som'ers · **What happens:** lay, get, say, enter, not get, do · **To what, where:** comp'ny, door, hand, gone en, en ef, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, yo, little boy, Remus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:14:1 # text = "I LAY yo' ma got comp'ny," said Uncle Remus, as the little boy entered the old man's door with a huge piece of mince-pie in his hand, 'en ef she ain't got comp'ny, den she done gone en drap de cubberd key som'ers whar you done run up wid it." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 LAY lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 4 yo you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 comp'ny comp'ny NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 mince mince NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 42 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 comp'ny comp'ny NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 47 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 done do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 drap drap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 52 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 53 compound _ _ 53 cubberd cubberd NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 54 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 som'ers som'er NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 56 whar whar VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 conj _ _ 57 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 xcomp _ _ 59 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 conj _ _ 60 up up ADP RP _ 59 compound:prt _ _ 61 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 ccomp _ _ 62 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Remus *= remus* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | yo | comp'ny | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comp'ny=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Remus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **enter** | past | the little boy | the old man's door | | boy's hand | | with a huge piece of mince pie | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | | 5 | **not** **get** | present · passive | Remus | comp'ny | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comp'ny=Stimulus | | 6 | **do** | past | den | gone en | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | | 7 | **drap** | present | den | en ef | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **whar** | present | cubberd key som'ers | you | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **do** | participle | cubberd key som'ers *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **run up** | present | den *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 11 | **wi** | past | den *not said here* | en | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [X. 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