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title: Ho my Riley! dey eat en dey cram, En bimeby ole Miss 'll be a sendin… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ho my Riley! dey eat en dey cram, En bimeby ole Miss 'll be a sendin' out de dram. Who acts: Riley dey, ole Miss. 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 118

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Ho my Riley! dey eat en dey cram, En bimeby ole Miss 'll be a sendin' out de dram.

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**Who acts:** Riley dey, ole Miss · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** en dey cram, sendin

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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 (Riley dey, ole Miss), 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:pg2306:41:118
# text = Ho my Riley! dey eat en dey cram, En bimeby ole Miss 'll be a sendin' out de dram.
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	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cram	cram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sendin	sendin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound	_	_
21	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dram	dram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Riley dey | en dey cram and a sendin and de dram |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cram=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | future | ole Miss | a sendin and de dram |  |  |  |  | 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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