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title: "Han' me down my walkin'-cane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!), Yo' t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Han' me down my walkin'-cane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!), Yo' true lover gone down de lane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!)." Who acts: Han, true lover. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 4

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"Han' me down my walkin'-cane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!), Yo' true lover gone down de lane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!)."

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**Who acts:** Han, true lover · **What happens:** go down · **To what, where:** lane

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Han, true lover), 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:pg2306:31:4
# text = "Han' me down my walkin'-cane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!), Yo' true lover gone down de lane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!)."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	walkin	walkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	de	de	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	Yo	Yo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	de	de	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	de	de	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** *in a quote* | infinitive | Han |  |  |  |  | de road; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **go down** *in a quote* | participle | Yo's true lover | lane |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **go down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | de road; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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