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title: Den she lay de blame on Tobe, en she say she gwineter lash 'im, en T… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den she lay de blame on Tobe, en she say she gwineter lash 'im, en Tobe, he put out en run, de ole 'oman atter 'im. Who acts: Den, head, de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 48

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Den she lay de blame on Tobe, en she say she gwineter lash 'im, en Tobe, he put out en run, de ole 'oman atter 'im.

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**Who acts:** Den, head, de · **What happens:** lie, say, put out, blame · **To what, where:** blame, Tobe, gwineter lash, en run · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, head, de), 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:pg2306:37:48
# text = Den she lay de blame on Tobe, en she say she gwineter lash 'im, en Tobe, he put out en run, de ole 'oman atter 'im.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	lash	lash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	Tobe	Tobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	advmod	_	_
28	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	oman	oman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **lie** | past | Den | de's blame |  | Tobe |  | en *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blame=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | head | gwineter lash and im and en |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lash=Topic |
| 3 | **put out** | past | den | en run |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent run=Goal |
| 4 | **blame** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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