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title: Dey perlaver'd dar, dey did, twel bimeby de Bad Man he up'n let 'im… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey perlaver'd dar, dey did, twel bimeby de Bad Man he up'n let 'im off n'er year. Who acts: dey. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 25

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Dey perlaver'd dar, dey did, twel bimeby de Bad Man he up'n let 'im off n'er year.

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**Who acts:** dey · **What happens:** do, let, im off · **To what, where:** twel bimeby

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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 (dey), 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:pg2306:35:25
# text = Dey perlaver'd dar, dey did, twel bimeby de Bad Man he up'n let 'im off n'er year.
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	perlaver	perlaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	im	im	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	n'er	n'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | dey | twel bimeby and Bad Man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **im off** | infinitive | dey *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | 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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