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title: Right den she's a comin' a skippin' en a scootin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sind… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Right den she's a comin' a skippin' en a scootin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!) Who acts: Right den, en. 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 32

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Right den she's a comin' a skippin' en a scootin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)

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**Who acts:** Right den, en · **What happens:** be, scootin · **To what, where:** comin

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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 (Right den, en), 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:pg2306:41:32
# text = Right den she's a comin' a skippin' en a scootin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)
1	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skippin	skippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	scootin	scootin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sindy	Sindy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Right den | a comin and O |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scootin** |  | a skippin'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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