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title: He tuck'n tuck a n'er bag en lay it down whar dish yer bag wuz, en d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He tuck'n tuck a n'er bag en lay it down whar dish yer bag wuz, en den he crope outer de crowd en lay low in de underbresh. Who acts: game, bag en. 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 pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 33

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He tuck'n tuck a n'er bag en lay it down whar dish yer bag wuz, en den he crope outer de crowd en lay low in de underbresh.

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**Who acts:** game, bag en · **What happens:** tuck, lie down, lie · **To what, where:** way, en den, de underbresh

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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, bag en), 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:pg2306:35:33
# text = He tuck'n tuck a n'er bag en lay it down whar dish yer bag wuz, en den he crope outer de crowd en lay low in de underbresh.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	n'er	n'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	crope	crope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	compound	_	_
29	underbresh	underbresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** | infinitive | game |  |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | a bag en | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | past | game | en den *not said here* |  | de underbresh |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location den=Theme |

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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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