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title: Corn makes mo' at de mill dan it does in de crib. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Corn makes mo' at de mill dan it does in de crib. Who acts: Corn. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 42

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Corn makes mo' at de mill dan it does in de crib.

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**Who acts:** Corn · **What happens:** make, do · **To what, where:** mo, de mill dan, de crib

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. 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:pg2306:38:42
# text = Corn makes mo' at de mill dan it does in de crib.
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dan	dan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	crib	crib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Corn | mo |  | de mill dan |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mo=Product |
| 2 | **do** | present | corn | de mill dan *not said here* |  | de crib |  |  | 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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