--- title: En he tar off de hide, en he chaws um en he gnyaws um-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: En he tar off de hide, en he chaws um en he gnyaws um-- (Hey O! Who acts: ai. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/) / 62 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 62 En he tar off de hide, en he chaws um en he gnyaws um-- (Hey O! **Who acts:** ai · **What happens:** tar off, chaw, gnyaw · **To what, where:** En 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 (ai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:41:62 # text = En he tar off de hide, en he chaws um en he gnyaws um-- (Hey O! 1 En en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tar tar VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 de de DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 chaws chaw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 um um ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gnyaws gnyaw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 um um ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Hey hey INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 19 O o INTJ UH _ 18 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tar off** | present | ai | En | | | | en *obl* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Destination | | 2 | **chaw** | present | ai | en *not said here* | | | | um en | tree rules | | 3 | **gnyaw** | present | ai | en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/63/) - ↑ back to [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/)