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title: Las', yer come a great big black wolf wid his eyes shinin' like fier… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Las', yer come a great big black wolf wid his eyes shinin' like fier coals, en he grab de hide and rush out. ' Who acts: Las, great big black wolf, en, eyes shinin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 57

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Las', yer come a great big black wolf wid his eyes shinin' like fier coals, en he grab de hide and rush out. '

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**Who acts:** Las, great big black wolf, en, eyes shinin · **What happens:** come, wi, grab, hide, rush out · **To what, where:** 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 (Las, great big black wolf, en, eyes shinin), 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:pg2306:34:57
# text = Las', yer come a great big black wolf wid his eyes shinin' like fier coals, en he grab de hide and rush out. '
1	Las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	',	',	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	shinin	shinin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Las  yer |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wi** | past | a great big black wolf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grab** | present | en | en *not said here* |  |  |  | de *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | present | wolf's eyes shinin like fier coals and en |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rush out** | present | wolf's eyes shinin like fier coals and en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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