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title: "One time," said the old darkey, transferring his spectacles from hi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "One time," said the old darkey, transferring his spectacles from his nose to the top of his head and leaning his elbows upon his peg-board, "dere wuz a blacksmif man, en dish yer blacksmif man, he tuck'n stuck closer by his dram dan he did by his bellus. Who acts: old darkey, Uncle. A sentence of «
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 8

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"One time," said the old darkey, transferring his spectacles from his nose to the top of his head and leaning his elbows upon his peg-board, "dere wuz a blacksmif man, en dish yer blacksmif man, he tuck'n stuck closer by his dram dan he did by his bellus.

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**Who acts:** old darkey, Uncle · **What happens:** say, transfer, lean, stick, do · **To what, where:** spectacles, nose, elbows, peg board, blacksmif man, dram dan · **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 (old darkey, Uncle), 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:pg2306:35:8
# text = "One time," said the old darkey, transferring his spectacles from his nose to the top of his head and leaning his elbows upon his peg-board, "dere wuz a blacksmif man, en dish yer blacksmif man, he tuck'n stuck closer by his dram dan he did by his bellus.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	darkey	darkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	transferring	transfer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	blacksmif	blacksmif	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	48	advmod	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	dram	dram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	bellus	bellus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old darkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **transfer** | gerund | the old darkey *not said here* | Uncle's spectacles |  | Uncle's nose |  | to the top of Uncle's head | tree rules |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund | the old darkey *not said here* | Uncle's elbows |  | Uncle's peg board |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme upon board=Destination |
| 4 | **stick** *in a quote* | past | Uncle | yer's blacksmif man *not said here* |  |  |  | by Uncle's dram dan; close *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme by dan=Destination |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Uncle | Uncle's dram dan *not said here* |  |  |  | by Uncle's bellus | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dan=Eventuality |

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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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