--- title: "En dey do say," continued Uncle Remus, with unction, "dat sense dat… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "En dey do say," continued Uncle Remus, with unction, "dat sense dat day de blacksmif bin sorter huv'rin' 'roun' 'twix' de heavens en de ye'th, en dark nights he shine out so fokes call 'im Jacky-my-lantern. Who acts: En dey, roun, fokes. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/46/) [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/) / 46 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 46 "En dey do say," continued Uncle Remus, with unction, "dat sense dat day de blacksmif bin sorter huv'rin' 'roun' 'twix' de heavens en de ye'th, en dark nights he shine out so fokes call 'im Jacky-my-lantern. **Who acts:** En dey, roun, fokes · **What happens:** say, continue, night, shine out, call · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus · **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 (En dey, roun, fokes), 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:pg2306:35:46 # text = "En dey do say," continued Uncle Remus, with unction, "dat sense dat day de blacksmif bin sorter huv'rin' 'roun' 'twix' de heavens en de ye'th, en dark nights he shine out so fokes call 'im Jacky-my-lantern. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 En en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 unction unction NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 19 flat:foreign _ _ 21 blacksmif blacksmif ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 huv'rin huv'rin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 twix twix NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 de de ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 compound _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 36 compound _ _ 36 ye'th ye'th NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 39 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 shine shine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 parataxis _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 46 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 47 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 im im ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 Jacky Jacky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 52 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | En dey *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **continue** | past | En dey | Uncle Remus | | | day | with unction | tree rules | | 3 | **night** *in a quote* | | roun and twix de heavens en and de ye'th and en | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shine out** *in a quote* | infinitive | roun | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **call** *in a quote* | present | fokes | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/35/47/) - ↑ back to [XXXII. 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