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title: At de een' er one year de sperit er de blacksmif wuz to be his'n en… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: At de een' er one year de sperit er de blacksmif wuz to be his'n en endurin' er dat time de blacksmif mus' put in his hottes' licks in de intruss er de Bad Man, en den he put a spell on de cheer de blacksmif was settin' in, en on his sludge-hammer. Who acts: er, Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, Hi
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 16

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At de een' er one year de sperit er de blacksmif wuz to be his'n en endurin' er dat time de blacksmif mus' put in his hottes' licks in de intruss er de Bad Man, en den he put a spell on de cheer de blacksmif was settin' in, en on his sludge-hammer.

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**Who acts:** er, Remus · **What happens:** wuz, his'n, put, man, be · **To what, where:** en endurin, de blacksmif mus, licks, spell, de cheer, blacksmif settin

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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 (er, 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:pg2306:35:16
# text = At de een' er one year de sperit er de blacksmif wuz to be his'n en endurin' er dat time de blacksmif mus' put in his hottes' licks in de intruss er de Bad Man, en den he put a spell on de cheer de blacksmif was settin' in, en on his sludge-hammer.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	sperit	sperit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	his'n	his'n	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	endurin	endurin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
21	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
24	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hottes	hotte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	licks	lick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	compound	_	_
35	intruss	intruss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	nsubj	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
38	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	compound	_	_
49	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	51	compound	_	_
51	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
55	in	in	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
60	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wuz** |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **his'n** | to-infinitive · passive |  | en endurin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  | de blacksmif mus *not said here* |  | Remus's hottes's licks in de intruss and en on Remus's sludge hammer |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in lick=Destination |
| 4 | **man** |  | er |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | past | Remus | a spell |  | de cheer |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on cheer=Destination |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | blacksmif settin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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