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title: *1) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a bakin', (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: *1) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a bakin', (Hey O! Who acts: de fier. 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 4

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\*1) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a bakin', (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** de fier · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** burnin 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 (de fier), 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:pg2306:41:4
# text = *1) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a bakin', (Hey O!
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	burnin	burnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
15	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bakin	bakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	',	',	PART	POS	_	19	dep	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | a de fier | a burnin en and de ash cake and a bakin |  |  |  |  | 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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