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title: En den dey shake der feet, En greaze derse'f wid de good ham meat. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En den dey shake der feet, En greaze derse'f wid de good ham meat. Who acts: En den dey. 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 117

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En den dey shake der feet, En greaze derse'f wid de good ham meat.

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**Who acts:** En den dey · **What happens:** shake · **To what, where:** der feet

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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 (En den 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:pg2306:41:117
# text = En den dey shake der feet, En greaze derse'f wid de good ham meat.
1	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	greaze	greaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	derse'f	derse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | present | En den dey | der feet |  |  |  | En greaze derse'f *obl* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |

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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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