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title: Den de day time's a creepin' en a crawlin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!) — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de day time's a creepin' en a crawlin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!) Who acts: Den day time. 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 20

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Den de day time's a creepin' en a crawlin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)

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**Who acts:** Den day time · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** en

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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 (Den day time), 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:pg2306:41:20
# text = Den de day time's a creepin' en a crawlin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	creepin	creepin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crawlin	crawlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sindy	Sindy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Den day time | a creepin's en |  |  |  |  | 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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