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title: En she'll ketch up wid dus 'fo' we ever git dis corn in-- (Oh, go 'w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En she'll ketch up wid dus 'fo' we ever git dis corn in-- (Oh, go 'way, Sindy Ann!) Who acts: En, we, git dis corn. 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 44

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En she'll ketch up wid dus 'fo' we ever git dis corn in-- (Oh, go 'way, Sindy Ann!)

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**Who acts:** En, we, git dis corn · **What happens:** ketch up, corn, go · **To what, where:** wid dus, way

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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 (En, we, git dis corn), 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:pg2306:41:44
# text = En she'll ketch up wid dus 'fo' we ever git dis corn in-- (Oh, go 'way, Sindy Ann!)
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ketch	ketch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dus	dus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Sindy	Sindy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ketch up** | future | En | wid dus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **corn** |  | we |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | git dis corn *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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