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title: "Las', w'en de time come fer ter go, de Ole Boy up wid his bag en sl… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Las', w'en de time come fer ter go, de Ole Boy up wid his bag en slung her on his shoulder, en off he put fer de Bad Place. Who acts: w'en time, Ole Boy, bag en, game. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 34

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"Las', w'en de time come fer ter go, de Ole Boy up wid his bag en slung her on his shoulder, en off he put fer de Bad Place.

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**Who acts:** w'en time, Ole Boy, bag en, game · **What happens:** come, go, wi, sling, put · **To what, where:** fer ter, darkey, shoulder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (w'en time, Ole Boy, bag en, 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:pg2306:35:34
# text = "Las', w'en de time come fer ter go, de Ole Boy up wid his bag en slung her on his shoulder, en off he put fer de Bad Place.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	',	',	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	de	de	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
30	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	conj	_	_
32	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | w'en time | fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | w'en time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | Ole Boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sling** *in a quote* | past | game's bag en | darkey |  | game's shoulder and en |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | past | game |  |  |  |  | f *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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