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title: "De Bad Man, honey; de Ole Boy hisse'f right fresh from de ridjun w'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De Bad Man, honey; de Ole Boy hisse'f right fresh from de ridjun w'at you year Miss Sally readin' 'bout. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 12

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"De Bad Man, honey; de Ole Boy hisse'f right fresh from de ridjun w'at you year Miss Sally readin' 'bout.

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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: 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:pg2306:35:12
# text = "De Bad Man, honey; de Ole Boy hisse'f right fresh from de ridjun w'at you year Miss Sally readin' 'bout.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Bad	Bad	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	ridjun	ridjun	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	readin	readin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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