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title: Fo' de boss come aroun' a dangin' en a dingin'-- (Hey O! — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Fo' de boss come aroun' a dangin' en a dingin'-- (Hey O! Who acts: 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 71

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Fo' de boss come aroun' a dangin' en a dingin'-- (Hey O!

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**Who acts:** boss · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** aroun

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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 (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:pg2306:41:71
# text = Fo' de boss come aroun' a dangin' en a dingin'-- (Hey O!
1	Fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	de	de	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	aroun	aroun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dangin	dangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dingin	dingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | boss | aroun |  |  |  | a dangin's en *obl*; a dingin *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aroun=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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