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title: In de happy Chris'mus time De niggers shake der cloze a huntin' for… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: In de happy Chris'mus time De niggers shake der cloze a huntin' for a dime. Who acts: De niggers. 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 115

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In de happy Chris'mus time De niggers shake der cloze a huntin' for a dime.

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**Who acts:** De niggers · **What happens:** shake · **To what, where:** der cloze

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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 niggers), 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:pg2306:41:115
# text = In de happy Chris'mus time De niggers shake der cloze a huntin' for a dime.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Chris'mus	Chris'mus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	huntin	huntin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | present | De niggers | der cloze |  |  | time | for a dime | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent cloze=Theme huntin=Destination |

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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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