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title: Oh, honey! w'en you year dem little pigs a rootin'-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, honey! w'en you year dem little pigs a rootin'-- (Hey O! 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 29

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Oh, honey! w'en you year dem little pigs a rootin'-- (Hey O!

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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: 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:pg2306:41:29
# text = Oh, honey! w'en you year dem little pigs a rootin'-- (Hey O!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rootin	rootin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
17	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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