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title: Den a squinch-owl lit on de koam er de house, en de nigger jam de sh… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den a squinch-owl lit on de koam er de house, en de nigger jam de shovel in de fier en make 'im flew away. Who acts: you, make. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 56

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Den a squinch-owl lit on de koam er de house, en de nigger jam de shovel in de fier en make 'im flew away.

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**Who acts:** you, make · **What happens:** den, lit, fly away · **To what, where:** squinch owl, de koam, de fier en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, make), 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:pg2306:34:56
# text = Den a squinch-owl lit on de koam er de house, en de nigger jam de shovel in de fier en make 'im flew away.
1	Den	den	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	squinch	squinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	koam	koam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	amod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
22	fier	fi	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	make	make	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **den** | imperative | you *not said here* | a squinch owl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lit** | participle |  | a squinch owl *not said here* |  | de koam and en and de shovel |  | in de fier en | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | make | de fier en *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=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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