--- title: De blacksmif cry en he holler, en he rip 'roun' en t'ar his ha'r, bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: De blacksmif cry en he holler, en he rip 'roun' en t'ar his ha'r, but hit des like he didn't, kase de Bad Man grab 'im up en cram 'im in a bag en tote 'im off. Who acts: De blacksmif, Mont, Man grab. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/28/) [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/) / 28 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 28 De blacksmif cry en he holler, en he rip 'roun' en t'ar his ha'r, but hit des like he didn't, kase de Bad Man grab 'im up en cram 'im in a bag en tote 'im off. **Who acts:** De blacksmif, Mont, Man grab · **What happens:** cry, holler, t'ar, hit, de, not do · **To what, where:** de, en, en tote 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 (De blacksmif, Mont, Man grab), 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:pg2306:35:28 # text = De blacksmif cry en he holler, en he rip 'roun' en t'ar his ha'r, but hit des like he didn't, kase de Bad Man grab 'im up en cram 'im in a bag en tote 'im off. 1 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 blacksmif blacksmif NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 10 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 t'ar t'ar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 ha'r ha'r NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 21 des de VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 22 like like SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 kase kase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 28 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 27 obl _ _ 29 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 grab grab NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 im im VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 cram cram NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 im im NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 tote tote NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 im im VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ _ 46 off off ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | De blacksmif | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **holler** *speech: other* | | Mont | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **t'ar** | | Mont | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hit** | past | De blacksmif *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **de** | present | De blacksmif *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **do** | past | Mont | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **kase** | infinitive | De blacksmif *not said here* | de | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **im up** | participle | Man grab *not said here* | en | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **im off** | participle | | a en tote *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/29/) - ↑ back to [XXXII. 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