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title: Corn-Shucking Song IV. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Corn-Shucking Song IV. Who acts: Corn. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 38

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Corn-Shucking Song IV.

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**Who acts:** Corn · **What happens:** shuck · **To what, where:** Song

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corn), 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:pg2306:3:38
# text = Corn-Shucking Song IV.
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Shucking	shuck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	Song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	IV	IV	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shuck** | gerund | Corn *not said here* | Song |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Source |

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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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