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title: He lines in en he talk politics same like t'er fokes, twel bimeby di… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He lines in en he talk politics same like t'er fokes, twel bimeby dinnertime come 'roun', en dey ax 'im up, w'ich 'greed wid his stummuck, en he pozzit his bag underneed de table 'longside de udder bags w'at de hongry fokes'd brung. Who acts: game, greed, stummuck. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His So
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 30

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He lines in en he talk politics same like t'er fokes, twel bimeby dinnertime come 'roun', en dey ax 'im up, w'ich 'greed wid his stummuck, en he pozzit his bag underneed de table 'longside de udder bags w'at de hongry fokes'd brung.

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**Who acts:** game, greed, stummuck · **What happens:** line, talk, come, im up, wi, pozzit · **To what, where:** politics, roun dey ax, w'ich, de table

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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 (game, greed, stummuck), 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:pg2306:35:30
# text = He lines in en he talk politics same like t'er fokes, twel bimeby dinnertime come 'roun', en dey ax 'im up, w'ich 'greed wid his stummuck, en he pozzit his bag underneed de table 'longside de udder bags w'at de hongry fokes'd brung.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lines	line	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	t'er	t'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dinnertime	dinnertime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	stummuck	stummuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	pozzit	pozzit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
38	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	underneed	underneed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	longside	longside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
44	de	de	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
48	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	conj	_	_
49	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	fokes	foke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'd	'd	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	brung	brung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line** | present | game |  |  |  |  | in en | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in en=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | present | game | politics |  |  |  | like t'er fokes and bimeby dinnertime; same *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent politics=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  | roun dey ax and w'ich |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **im up** | participle |  | roun dey ax and w'ich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wi** | past | greed | w'ich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pozzit** | past | game's stummuck and en | game's de table |  |  |  | longside de udder bags *obl* | 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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