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title: De squinch owl shiver like he wanter go ter bed; Ho my Riley! but de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De squinch owl shiver like he wanter go ter bed; Ho my Riley! but de gals en de boys, Des now gittin' so dey kin sorter make a noise. Who acts: De owl shiver, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and th
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 109

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De squinch owl shiver like he wanter go ter bed; Ho my Riley! but de gals en de boys, Des now gittin' so dey kin sorter make a noise.

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**Who acts:** De owl shiver, dey · **What happens:** go, make · **To what, where:** ter bed, noise

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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 (De owl shiver, dey), 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:pg2306:41:109
# text = De squinch owl shiver like he wanter go ter bed; Ho my Riley! but de gals en de boys, Des now gittin' so dey kin sorter make a noise.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	squinch	squinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wanter	wanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	ter	ter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Riley	Riley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gals	gal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	de	de	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Des	Des	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	kin	kin	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | De owl shiver like wanter | ter bed |  |  |  | my Ho Riley but gals en de boys *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | dey kin sorter | a noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |

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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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