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title: Oh, honey, w'en you year dat roan mule whicker-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, honey, w'en you year dat roan mule whicker-- (Hey O! Who acts: honey. 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 33

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Oh, honey, w'en you year dat roan mule whicker-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** honey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dat roan mule

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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 (honey), 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:pg2306:41:33
# text = Oh, honey, w'en you year dat roan mule whicker-- (Hey O!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	roan	roan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	whicker	whicker	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	10	conj	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | honey and w'en | dat roan mule |  |  |  |  | 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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