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title: Bimeby, one day, atter de blacksmif bin spreein''roun' en cussin' mi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, one day, atter de blacksmif bin spreein''roun' en cussin' might'ly, he hear a sorter rustlin' fuss at de do', en in walk de Bad Man." Who acts: Bimeby. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency tree and t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 10

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Bimeby, one day, atter de blacksmif bin spreein''roun' en cussin' might'ly, he hear a sorter rustlin' fuss at de do', en in walk de Bad Man."

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**Who acts:** Bimeby · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** rustlin fuss, de

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby), 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:pg2306:35:10
# text = Bimeby, one day, atter de blacksmif bin spreein''roun' en cussin' might'ly, he hear a sorter rustlin' fuss at de do', en in walk de Bad Man."
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	blacksmif	blacksmif	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	spreein	spreein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	''	''	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cussin	cussin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	might'ly	might'ly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	rustlin	rustlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	',	',	PART	POS	_	30	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	de	de	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | Bimeby | a rustlin fuss |  | de |  | en in walk de Bad Man *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fuss=Stimulus |

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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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