--- title: NIGGER mighty happy w'en he layin' by co'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; N… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: NIGGER mighty happy w'en he layin' by co'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Nigger mighty happy w'en he year de dinner-ho'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; En he mo' happy still w'en de night draws on-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' des ez sho's you bo'n! Who acts: Dat sun, Nigger, happy de night, you. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/86/) [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/) / 86 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 86 NIGGER mighty happy w'en he layin' by co'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Nigger mighty happy w'en he year de dinner-ho'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; En he mo' happy still w'en de night draws on-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' des ez sho's you bo'n! **Who acts:** Dat sun, Nigger, happy de night, you · **What happens:** be, w'en, year, mo, draw on, bo'n · **To what, where:** slantin, En mo 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 (Dat sun, Nigger, happy de night, you), 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:pg2306:41:86 # text = NIGGER mighty happy w'en he layin' by co'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Nigger mighty happy w'en he year de dinner-ho'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; En he mo' happy still w'en de night draws on-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' des ez sho's you bo'n! 1 NIGGER nigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 layin layin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 co'n co'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Nigger Nigger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ho'n ho'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 41 still still ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ; ; PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 cop _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 59 punct _ _ 61 des des X FW _ 63 compound _ _ 62 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 sho sho NOUN NN _ 66 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 64 's 's PART POS _ 63 case _ _ 65 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 66 bo'n bo'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **w'en** | | Nigger | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **year** | | nigger | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mo** | | nigger | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **draw on** | present | happy de night | En mo *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin and sho bo'n | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **bo'n** | | you | | | | | | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/87/) - ↑ back to [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/)