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title: So den de blacksmif gun de wud, en de Bad Man sa'nter off down de bi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So den de blacksmif gun de wud, en de Bad Man sa'nter off down de big road, settin' traps en layin' his progance fer ter ketch mo' sinners. Who acts: den de wud. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency tree and
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 22

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So den de blacksmif gun de wud, en de Bad Man sa'nter off down de big road, settin' traps en layin' his progance fer ter ketch mo' sinners.

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**Who acts:** den de wud · **What happens:** trap · **To what, where:** en layin

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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 (den de wud), 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:pg2306:35:22
# text = So den de blacksmif gun de wud, en de Bad Man sa'nter off down de big road, settin' traps en layin' his progance fer ter ketch mo' sinners.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sa'nter	sa'nter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	de	de	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	layin	layin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
27	progance	progance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | present | den de wud and en and Bad Man sa'nter and big road | en layin |  |  |  |  | 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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