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title: OH, de fus' news you know de day'll be a breakin'-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: OH, de fus' news you know de day'll be a breakin'-- (Hey O! Who acts: fus news, de day. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 1

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OH, de fus' news you know de day'll be a breakin'-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** fus news, de day · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** breakin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fus news, de day), 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:pg2306:41:1
# text = OH, de fus' news you know de day'll be a breakin'-- (Hey O!
1	OH	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	fus	fus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breakin	breakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
19	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | fus news |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | future | de day | a breakin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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