--- title: Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an' de mule she up'n hump 'erse'f,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an' de mule she up'n hump 'erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an' w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an' de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg. Who acts: mule, dar, de mule. A sentence of «Uncle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/15/) [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/) / [I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/) / 15 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 15 Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an' de mule she up'n hump 'erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an' w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an' de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg. **Who acts:** mule, dar, de mule · **What happens:** wuz, lie, stand, eatin · **To what, where:** skuffle, de nigger, de groun, de troff This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mule, dar, de mule), 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:pg2306:47:15 # text = Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an' de mule she up'n hump 'erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an' w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an' de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg. 1 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 tuck'n tuck'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 mule mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mule mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 15 up'n up'n CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 erse'f erse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 skuffle skuffle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 30 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 31 compound _ _ 31 dus dus NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 39 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 nigger nigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 43 compound _ _ 43 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ', ', PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 47 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 mule mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 51 eatin eatin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 50 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 at at ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 55 compound _ _ 55 troff troff NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 56 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 wunner wunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ _ 58 Jim Jim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 59 's 's PART POS _ 58 case _ _ 60 gallusses galluss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 compound _ _ 61 wrop wrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ _ 62 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 65 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 66 behime behime NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 67 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wuz** | present | mule | a skuffle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | past | dar | de nigger | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nigger=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | past | a de mule | | | de groun | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **eatin** | gerund | a de mule *not said here* | | | de troff dar's behime leg and wid wunner and gallusses wrop | | | tree rules | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/47/16/) - ↑ back to [I. 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