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title: Atter 'long time, de blacksmif he tuck'n die, en w'en he go ter de G… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Atter 'long time, de blacksmif he tuck'n die, en w'en he go ter de Good Place de man at de gate dunner who he is, en he can't squeeze in. Who acts: long time, Remus, de man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its depende
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 41

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Atter 'long time, de blacksmif he tuck'n die, en w'en he go ter de Good Place de man at de gate dunner who he is, en he can't squeeze in.

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**Who acts:** long time, Remus, de man · **What happens:** die, go, be, not squeeze in · **To what, where:** en w'en, en

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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 (long time, Remus, de man), 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:pg2306:35:41
# text = Atter 'long time, de blacksmif he tuck'n die, en w'en he go ter de Good Place de man at de gate dunner who he is, en he can't squeeze in.
1	Atter	Atter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	ter	t	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	de	de	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	dunner	dun	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | infinitive | Atter's long time | en w'en |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Remus | en w'en *not said here* |  |  |  | de Good Place and en | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location w'en=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | de man at de gate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dun *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **squeeze in** | can | Remus | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=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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