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title: W'en de Bad Man got in de do', de blacksmif wuz poundin' 'way at a h… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en de Bad Man got in de do', de blacksmif wuz poundin' 'way at a hoss-shoe, but he wa'n't so bizzy dat he didn't ax 'im in. Who acts: W'en Man, man, dat. 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 p
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 19

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W'en de Bad Man got in de do', de blacksmif wuz poundin' 'way at a hoss-shoe, but he wa'n't so bizzy dat he didn't ax 'im in.

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**Who acts:** W'en Man, man, dat · **What happens:** get, wa', not ax, im in · **To what, where:** poundin way, de, bizzy dat

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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 (W'en Man, man, dat), 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:pg2306:35:19
# text = W'en de Bad Man got in de do', de blacksmif wuz poundin' 'way at a hoss-shoe, but he wa'n't so bizzy dat he didn't ax 'im in.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Bad	Bad	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	1	flat	_	_
4	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
11	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	poundin	poundin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	hoss	hoss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wa'	wa'	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	bizzy	bizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	ax	ax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | W'en Man | poundin way at a hoss shoe |  | de |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wa'** | past | man | bizzy dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **ax** | past · do-support | dat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **im in** | participle | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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