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title: Ho my Riley! better shet dat do'-- De w'ite folks 'll bleeve we er t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ho my Riley! better shet dat do'-- De w'ite folks 'll bleeve we er t'arin up de flo'. Who acts: shet dat, w'ite folks, we. 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 102

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Ho my Riley! better shet dat do'-- De w'ite folks 'll bleeve we er t'arin up de flo'.

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**Who acts:** shet dat, w'ite folks, we · **What happens:** do, bleeve, er · **To what, where:** t'arin

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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 (shet dat, w'ite folks, we), 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:pg2306:41:102
# text = Ho my Riley! better shet dat do'-- De w'ite folks 'll bleeve we er t'arin up de flo'.
1	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Riley	Riley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	er	er	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	t'arin	t'arin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	flo	flo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | my Ho Riley's shet dat and bleeve *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bleeve** | future | w'ite folks |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **er** | present | we | t'arin |  |  |  | de flo *obl* | 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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