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title: De tattlin' Jack Sparrer he flew'd 'long, en keep on callin' Brer Fo… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De tattlin' Jack Sparrer he flew'd 'long, en keep on callin' Brer Fox, but Brer Fox, he ain't sayin' nuthin'. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 59

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De tattlin' Jack Sparrer he flew'd 'long, en keep on callin' Brer Fox, but Brer Fox, he ain't sayin' nuthin'.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** fly

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg2306:22:59
# text = De tattlin' Jack Sparrer he flew'd 'long, en keep on callin' Brer Fox, but Brer Fox, he ain't sayin' nuthin'.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tattlin	tattlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	keep	keep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	callin	callin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	sayin	sayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Jack  De tattlin |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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