---
title: De man w'at sot in de cheer couldn't git up less'n de blacksmif let… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De man w'at sot in de cheer couldn't git up less'n de blacksmif let 'im, en de man w'at pick up de sludge 'ud hatter keep on knockin' wid it twel de blacksmif say quit; en den he gun 'im money plenty, en off he put. Who acts: De w'at sot, de sludge, twel, sot. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs a
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/) / 17

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 17

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
De man w'at sot in de cheer couldn't git up less'n de blacksmif let 'im, en de man w'at pick up de sludge 'ud hatter keep on knockin' wid it twel de blacksmif say quit; en den he gun 'im money plenty, en off he put.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** De w'at sot, de sludge, twel, sot · **What happens:** not git up, let, pick up, keep, wi, say · **To what, where:** less'n blacksmif, im, knockin, quit, en · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (De w'at sot, de sludge, twel, sot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:35:17
# text = De man w'at sot in de cheer couldn't git up less'n de blacksmif let 'im, en de man w'at pick up de sludge 'ud hatter keep on knockin' wid it twel de blacksmif say quit; en den he gun 'im money plenty, en off he put.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sot	sot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	git	git	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	less'n	less'n	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat	_	_
14	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	im	im	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
23	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ud	ud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	knockin	knockin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	flat:foreign	_	_
38	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
40	quit	quit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	off	off	ADP	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **git up** | could | De w'at sot in de cheer | less'n blacksmif |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | im and en |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent im=Recipient w'at=Theme |
| 3 | **pick up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | present | de sludge and ud hatter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wi** | past | de sludge and ud hatter *not said here* | im |  | knockin |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | twel and blacksmif | quit |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quit=Topic |
| 7 | **gun** |  | sot |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **put** | past | sot | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent en=Goal |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/16/)
- next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/18/)
- ↑ back to [XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/)