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title: Den little Jack Sparrer, he hop down on de groun' en flutter 'roun'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den little Jack Sparrer, he hop down on de groun' en flutter 'roun' 'mongst de trash. Who acts: Den. 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 60

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Den little Jack Sparrer, he hop down on de groun' en flutter 'roun' 'mongst de trash.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** hop down · **To what, where:** de groun

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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 (Den), 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:pg2306:22:60
# text = Den little Jack Sparrer, he hop down on de groun' en flutter 'roun' 'mongst de trash.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mongst	mongst	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop down** | present | Den |  |  | de groun |  | mongst de trash; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on groun=Trajectory |

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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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