--- title: W'iles dey wuz gwine 'long dey come up wid a passel er fokes w'at wu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: W'iles dey wuz gwine 'long dey come up wid a passel er fokes w'at wuz havin' wanner deze yer fote er July bobbycues, en de Ole Boy, he 'low dat maybe he kin git some mo' game, en w'at do he do but jine in wid um. Who acts: W'iles, long dey, dey wuz gwine, fokes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/29/) [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/) / 29 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 29 W'iles dey wuz gwine 'long dey come up wid a passel er fokes w'at wuz havin' wanner deze yer fote er July bobbycues, en de Ole Boy, he 'low dat maybe he kin git some mo' game, en w'at do he do but jine in wid um. **Who acts:** W'iles, long dey, dey wuz gwine, fokes, fote, mo game · **What happens:** gwine, come up, wi, havin, dat, kin · **To what, where:** passel, git, wid um 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'iles, long dey, dey wuz gwine, fokes), 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:pg2306:35:29 # text = W'iles dey wuz gwine 'long dey come up wid a passel er fokes w'at wuz havin' wanner deze yer fote er July bobbycues, en de Ole Boy, he 'low dat maybe he kin git some mo' game, en w'at do he do but jine in wid um. 1 W'iles W'iles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 gwine gwine NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 passel passel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 14 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 havin havin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 wanner wan ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 deze deze NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 yer yer PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 fote fote NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 23 er er ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 bobbycues bobbycue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 de de ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Ole Ole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 36 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 kin kin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 39 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 41 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 47 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 aux _ _ 50 but but CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 jine jine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl:relcl _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gwine** | | W'iles | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come up** | present | long dey | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wi** | past | dey wuz gwine | a passel | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **havin** | | fokes | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dat** | | fote | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **kin** | past | yer's fote er July bobbycues and en de Ole Boy and low dat | git | | | | maybe *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **jine** | present · do-support | some mo game | git *not said here* | | wid um | | | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/30/) - ↑ back to [XXXII. 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