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title: He tuck off his hat en he bow, en den he tell de blacksmif who he is… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He tuck off his hat en he bow, en den he tell de blacksmif who he is, en dat he done come atter 'im. Who acts: Remus. 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 14

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He tuck off his hat en he bow, en den he tell de blacksmif who he is, en dat he done come atter 'im.

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**Who acts:** Remus · **What happens:** tuck off, bow, tell, be, do, come · **To what, where:** hat en, de blacksmif, en dat, im · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg2306:35:14
# text = He tuck off his hat en he bow, en den he tell de blacksmif who he is, en dat he done come atter 'im.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	'	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck off** | present | Remus | Remus's hat en and bow and en den |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
| 2 | **bow** |  | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Remus | de blacksmif and en dat |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blacksmif=Recipient |
| 4 | **be** | present | Remus | de blacksmif and en dat |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | Remus | en dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive | Remus *not said here* | atter's im |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location im=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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