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title: He done hide his hawns, en his tail, en his hoof, en he come dress u… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He done hide his hawns, en his tail, en his hoof, en he come dress up like w'ite fokes. Who acts: Remus, hoof. 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 13

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He done hide his hawns, en his tail, en his hoof, en he come dress up like w'ite fokes.

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**Who acts:** Remus, hoof · **What happens:** do, hide, come, dress up · **To what, where:** hawns, en

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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 (Remus, hoof), 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:pg2306:35:13
# text = He done hide his hawns, en his tail, en his hoof, en he come dress up like w'ite fokes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hawns	hawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | infinitive | Remus *not said here* | Remus's hawns and en and en |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawn=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | Remus's hoof and en | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dress up** | infinitive | Remus's hoof and en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like w'ite fokes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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