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title: An' de ho'n 'll be a hollerin' en de boss 'll be a wakin'-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: An' de ho'n 'll be a hollerin' en de boss 'll be a wakin'-- (Hey O! Who acts: de ho'n, de boss. 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 7

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An' de ho'n 'll be a hollerin' en de boss 'll be a wakin'-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** de ho'n, de boss · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** en, wakin

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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 ho'n, de boss), 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:pg2306:41:7
# text = An' de ho'n 'll be a hollerin' en de boss 'll be a wakin'-- (Hey O!
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ho'n	ho'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wakin	wakin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	10	conj	_	_
21	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	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** | future | a de ho'n | hollerin's en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | future | de boss | a wakin |  |  |  |  | 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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