--- title: Do co'n 'll be ready 'g'inst dumplin' day-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Bu… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Do co'n 'll be ready 'g'inst dumplin' day-- Dat sun's a slantin'; But nigger gotter watch, en stick, en stay-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Same ez de bee-martin watchin' un de jay-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' en a slippin' away! Who acts: you, co'n, Dat sun, de. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/90/) [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/) / 90 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 90 Do co'n 'll be ready 'g'inst dumplin' day-- Dat sun's a slantin'; But nigger gotter watch, en stick, en stay-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Same ez de bee-martin watchin' un de jay-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' en a slippin' away! **Who acts:** you, co'n, Dat sun, de · **What happens:** do, be, un · **To what, where:** ready dumplin day, slantin, 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 (you, co'n, Dat sun, de), 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:pg2306:41:90 # text = Do co'n 'll be ready 'g'inst dumplin' day-- Dat sun's a slantin'; But nigger gotter watch, en stick, en stay-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Same ez de bee-martin watchin' un de jay-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' en a slippin' away! 1 Do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 co'n co'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 5 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 g'inst g'inst NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 dumplin dumplin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 19 But but CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 20 nigger nigger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 gotter gotter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 stay stay NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 Same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 38 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 39 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 45 nsubj _ _ 40 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 martin martin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 watchin watchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 46 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 compound _ _ 47 jay jay NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ; ; PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 56 Dat Dat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 cop _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 slantin slantin NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ' 's PART POS _ 60 case _ _ 62 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 slippin slippin NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 66 punct _ _ 66 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | future | co'n | ready dumplin day | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **un** | | de | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | Dat sun | a slantin's en | | | | | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/91/) - ↑ back to [III. 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