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title: Oh, work on, boys! give doze shucks a mighty wringin'-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, work on, boys! give doze shucks a mighty wringin'-- (Hey O! Who acts: boys, doze. 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 68

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Oh, work on, boys! give doze shucks a mighty wringin'-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** boys, doze · **What happens:** work on, give, shuck · **To what, where:** mighty wringin

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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 (boys, doze), 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:pg2306:41:68
# text = Oh, work on, boys! give doze shucks a mighty wringin'-- (Hey O!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	doze	doze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shucks	shuck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wringin	wringin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work on** | infinitive | boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | boys |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shuck** | present | doze | a mighty wringin |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wringin=Source |

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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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