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title: Den he lam aloose en knock 'gin--blim! blim! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he lam aloose en knock 'gin--blim! blim! Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 27

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Den he lam aloose en knock 'gin--blim! blim!

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** lam · **To what, where:** aloose en knock

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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 (Wolf), 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:pg2306:14:27
# text = Den he lam aloose en knock 'gin--blim! blim!
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lam	lam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	aloose	aloose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	blim	blim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	blim	blim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lam** | present | Wolf | aloose en knock and gin and blim |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Patient |

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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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