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title: He crope out, he did, en den he tuck'n change de bag. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He crope out, he did, en den he tuck'n change 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 32

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He crope out, he did, en den he tuck'n change de bag.

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**Who acts:** game · **What happens:** crope out, do, den, change · **To what, where:** de bag

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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:pg2306:35:32
# text = He crope out, he did, en den he tuck'n change de bag.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crope	crope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crope out** | infinitive | game |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | game |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **den** |  | game |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | infinitive | game *not said here* | de bag |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |

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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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