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title: De Ole Boy, he look out, he did, en he know'd de blacksmif de minnit… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De Ole Boy, he look out, he did, en he know'd de blacksmif de minnit he laid eyes on 'im; but he shake his head en say, sezee: Who acts: Ole Boy, boy, en, head en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency tree a
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 43

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De Ole Boy, he look out, he did, en he know'd de blacksmif de minnit he laid eyes on 'im; but he shake his head en say, sezee:

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**Who acts:** Ole Boy, boy, en, head en · **What happens:** look out, do, know, blacksmif, lay, shake · **To what, where:** en, eyes, im, sezee · **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 (Ole Boy, boy, en, head 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:pg2306:35:43
# text = De Ole Boy, he look out, he did, en he know'd de blacksmif de minnit he laid eyes on 'im; but he shake his head en say, sezee:
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | infinitive | Ole Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present | boy | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 4 | **blacksmif** | would | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | past | boy | eyes |  | im |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on im=Destination |
| 6 | **shake** | infinitive | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | boy's head en | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |

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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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