--- title: "So den dey open de bag, en lo en behol's, out jump a big bull- dog,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "So den dey open de bag, en lo en behol's, out jump a big bull- dog, en de way he shuck dem little imps wuz a caution, en he kep' on gnyawin' un um twel de Ole Boy open de gate en t'un 'im out." Who acts: den dey, dey, dem little imps. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/) / 38 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 38 "So den dey open de bag, en lo en behol's, out jump a big bull- dog, en de way he shuck dem little imps wuz a caution, en he kep' on gnyawin' un um twel de Ole Boy open de gate en t'un 'im out." **Who acts:** den dey, dey, dem little imps · **What happens:** jump, shuck, wuz, kep, im out · **To what, where:** big bull dog, de way, caution, en, Ole Boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (den dey, dey, dem little imps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:35:38 # text = "So den dey open de bag, en lo en behol's, out jump a big bull- dog, en de way he shuck dem little imps wuz a caution, en he kep' on gnyawin' un um twel de Ole Boy open de gate en t'un 'im out." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 So so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 3 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 7 compound _ _ 7 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 10 lo lo ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 behol behol NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 25 compound _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shuck shuck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 28 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 imps imp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 caution caution NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 kep kep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 gnyawin gnyawin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 ccomp _ _ 45 de de ADP IN _ 54 mark _ _ 46 Ole Ole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 advcl _ _ 49 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 51 compound _ _ 50 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 t'un t'un NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 im im VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 advcl _ _ 55 out out ADP RP _ 54 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** *in a quote* | infinitive | den dey and en lo en behol | a big bull dog and en | | | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Agent | | 2 | **shuck** *in a quote* | present | dey | de way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wuz** *in a quote* | present | dem little imps | a caution and en | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **kep** *in a quote* | present | dey | en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **im out** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | Ole Boy | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/39/) - ↑ back to [XXXII. 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