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title: De boys ain't a gwine W'en you cry boo hoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De boys ain't a gwine W'en you cry boo hoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo! Who acts: you. 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 142

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De boys ain't a gwine W'en you cry boo hoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** boo hoo

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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 (you), 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:pg2306:41:142
# text = De boys ain't a gwine W'en you cry boo hoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	boo	boo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hoo	hoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Loo	Loo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | you | boo hoo |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoo=Topic |

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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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