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title: "No sooner did de blacksmif git back on de groun' dan he 'gun ter wu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "No sooner did de blacksmif git back on de groun' dan he 'gun ter wuk his way outer de bag. Who acts: game. 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 31

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"No sooner did de blacksmif git back on de groun' dan he 'gun ter wuk his way outer de bag.

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**Who acts:** game · **What happens:** do, wuk · **To what, where:** blacksmif git, way

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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), 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:pg2306:35:31
# text = "No sooner did de blacksmif git back on de groun' dan he 'gun ter wuk his way outer de bag.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wuk	wuk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past |  | blacksmif git |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wuk** *in a quote* | past | game | game's way and outer de bag |  |  |  |  | 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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