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title: Den de black-smif, he gun ter cry en beg, en he beg so hard en he cr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de black-smif, he gun ter cry en beg, en he beg so hard en he cry so loud dat de Bad Man say he make a trade wid 'im. Who acts: Remus, gun. 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
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 15

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Den de black-smif, he gun ter cry en beg, en he beg so hard en he cry so loud dat de Bad Man say he make a trade wid 'im.

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**Who acts:** Remus, gun · **What happens:** gun, cry, beg, say, make · **To what, where:** en beg, Den black smif, loud 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, gun), 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:pg2306:35:15
# text = Den de black-smif, he gun ter cry en beg, en he beg so hard en he cry so loud dat de Bad Man say he make a trade wid 'im.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	smif	smif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	ter	ter	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gun** |  | Remus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | gun *not said here* | en beg |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Topic |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Remus | Den black smif |  |  |  | en *obl* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent en=Recipient |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Remus | loud dat and Bad Man |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Remus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | Remus | a trade wid's im |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent im=Product |

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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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