--- title: Den de blacksmif, he 'gun ter poke fun at de Bad Man, en he ax him d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Den de blacksmif, he 'gun ter poke fun at de Bad Man, en he ax him don't he want a dram, en won't he hitch his cheer up little nigher de fier, en de Bad Man, he beg en he beg, but 'twan't doin' no good, kase de blacksmif 'low dat he gwineter keep 'im dar twel he prommus dat he let 'im off one year m --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/21/) [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/) / 21 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 21 Den de blacksmif, he 'gun ter poke fun at de Bad Man, en he ax him don't he want a dram, en won't he hitch his cheer up little nigher de fier, en de Bad Man, he beg en he beg, but 'twan't doin' no good, kase de blacksmif 'low dat he gwineter keep 'im dar twel he prommus dat he let 'im off one year mo', en, sho nuff, de Bad Man prommus dat ef de black-smif let 'im up he give 'im a n'er showin'. **Who acts:** Den, de Man, man, dram, twa, dat gwineter · **What happens:** poke, ax, do, not want, not hitch, cheer up · **To what, where:** fun, ter, nigher de fier, prommus dat, mo en, n'er showin 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 (Den, de Man, man, dram), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:35:21 # text = Den de blacksmif, he 'gun ter poke fun at de Bad Man, en he ax him don't he want a dram, en won't he hitch his cheer up little nigher de fier, en de Bad Man, he beg en he beg, but 'twan't doin' no good, kase de blacksmif 'low dat he gwineter keep 'im dar twel he prommus dat he let 'im off one year mo', en, sho nuff, de Bad Man prommus dat ef de black-smif let 'im up he give 'im a n'er showin'. 1 Den Den PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 blacksmif blacksmif NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 list _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 poke poke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 Bad Bad ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 12 flat _ _ 14 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ax ax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dram dram NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hitch hitch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 cheer cheer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 little little ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 nigher nigh ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 37 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 38 compound _ _ 38 fier fier NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 de de ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 47 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 beg beg NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 51 but but CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 52 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 twa twa NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 55 doin doin NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 57 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 60 det _ _ 58 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 kase kase NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 61 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 62 compound _ _ 62 blacksmif blacksmif NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 63 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 compound _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 gwineter gwineter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 68 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 67 acl _ _ 69 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 71 dar dar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 nsubj _ _ 73 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 75 nsubj _ _ 74 prommus prommus NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 compound _ _ 75 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 76 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 77 nsubj _ _ 77 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 75 acl:relcl _ _ 78 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 79 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 im im VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 77 xcomp _ _ 80 off off ADP RP _ 79 compound:prt _ _ 81 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 83 nummod _ _ 82 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 83 compound _ _ 83 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 85 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 84 ', ', PART POS _ 83 dep _ _ 85 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 86 , , PUNCT , _ 88 punct _ _ 87 sho sho NOUN NN _ 88 compound _ _ 88 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 85 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 89 , , PUNCT , _ 95 punct _ _ 90 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 95 nsubj _ _ 91 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 95 amod _ _ 92 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 93 compound _ _ 93 prommus prommus NOUN NN Number=Sing 95 compound _ _ 94 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 95 compound _ _ 95 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 conj _ _ 96 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 95 flat:foreign _ _ 97 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 99 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 98 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 97 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 99 smif smif NOUN NN Number=Sing 100 compound _ _ 100 let let NOUN NN Number=Sing 95 conj _ _ 101 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 102 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 102 im im VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 100 acl _ _ 103 up up ADP RP _ 102 compound:prt _ _ 104 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 105 nsubj _ _ 105 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 102 conj _ _ 106 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 110 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 107 im im ADP IN _ 110 case _ _ 108 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 110 det _ _ 109 n'er n'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 110 compound _ _ 110 showin showin NOUN NN Number=Sing 105 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 111 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 110 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 112 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **poke** | present | Den | fun | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fun=Theme | | 2 | **ax** | infinitive | de Man and en | ter | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | de Man and en *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **want** | infinitive | man | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **not** **hitch** | future | a dram and en | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cheer up** | present | a dram and en *not said here* | nigher de fier and en de Bad Man | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fier=Patient | | 7 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | man | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **beg** *speech: request* | | man | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **gwineter** | | twa and doin | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **keep** | infinitive | dat gwineter *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **dat** | | im dar twel | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **let** | past | man | prommus dat and Bad prommus dat ef and smif let *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 13 | **im off** | infinitive | prommus dat and Bad prommus dat ef and smif let *not said here* | mo en and sho nuff | | | | | tree rules | | 14 | **ef** | | de | | | | | | tree rules | | 15 | **im up** | infinitive | smif let *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 16 | **give** | infinitive | man | a n'er showin | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent showin=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/22/) - ↑ back to [XXXII. 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