---
title: "De blacksmif, he sail in fer ter have his fun, en he have so much d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "De blacksmif, he sail in fer ter have his fun, en he have so much dat he done clean forgot 'bout his contrack, but bimeby, one day he look down de road, en dar he see de Bad Man comin', en den he know'd de year wuz out. Who acts: sot, De blacksmif, much dat, Bad Man comin. A sentence of «Uncle Remu
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/18/)

<!-- 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/) / 18

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"De blacksmif, he sail in fer ter have his fun, en he have so much dat he done clean forgot 'bout his contrack, but bimeby, one day he look down de road, en dar he see de Bad Man comin', en den he know'd de year wuz out.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sot, De blacksmif, much dat, Bad Man comin · **What happens:** sail, have, do, forget, look down, see · **To what, where:** fer ter, fun, de, en den, year wuz

<!-- .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 (sot, De blacksmif, much dat, Bad Man comin), 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:pg2306:35:18
# text = "De blacksmif, he sail in fer ter have his fun, en he have so much dat he done clean forgot 'bout his contrack, but bimeby, one day he look down de road, en dar he see de Bad Man comin', en den he know'd de year wuz out.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
23	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	contrack	contrack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	de	de	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
44	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	',	',	PART	POS	_	47	dep	_	_
49	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	out	out	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** *in a quote* |  | sot |  |  | fer ter |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | De blacksmif | sot's fun and en |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | sot |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | much dat |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **forget** *in a quote* | past | much dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bout sot's contrack; clean *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **look down** *in a quote* | infinitive | sot |  |  |  | day | bimeby *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **see** *in a quote* | present | sot | de |  |  |  | de road and en dar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer de=Stimulus |
| 8 | **den** *in a quote* |  | Bad Man comin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **know** *in a quote* | present | sot | en den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **de out** *in a quote* | would | sot *not said here* | year wuz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/17/)
- next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/19/)
- ↑ back to [XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/)