--- title: Den it's rise up, Primus! en gin it turn strong; De cow's gwine home… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Den it's rise up, Primus! en gin it turn strong; De cow's gwine home wid der ding-dang-dong-- Sling in anudder tetch er de ole-time song: Good-night, Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Don't stay long! Who acts: you, sun, De cow, Whipperwill. A sentence of «Uncle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/91/) [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/) / 91 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 91 Den it's rise up, Primus! en gin it turn strong; De cow's gwine home wid der ding-dang-dong-- Sling in anudder tetch er de ole-time song: Good-night, Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Don't stay long! **Who acts:** you, sun, De cow, Whipperwill · **What happens:** den, rise up, turn, wid, not stay · **To what, where:** Primus en gin, Good night 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, sun, De cow, Whipperwill), 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:pg2306:41:91 # text = Den it's rise up, Primus! en gin it turn strong; De cow's gwine home wid der ding-dang-dong-- Sling in anudder tetch er de ole-time song: Good-night, Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Mr. Whipperwill! don't stay long! --Don't stay long! 1 Den den VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Primus Primus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 gin gin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 gwine gwine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 21 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 22 ding ding NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 dang dang ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 dong dong NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Sling sling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 anudder anudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 tetch tetch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 de de ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:desc _ _ 44 Whipperwill Whipperwill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ 46 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 47 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 49 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 51 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nmod:desc _ _ 53 Whipperwill Whipperwill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 53 punct _ _ 55 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 56 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 57 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 58 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 60 -- -- PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 Do do AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 62 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 63 advmod _ _ 63 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 64 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **den** | imperative | you *not said here* | Primus en gin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **rise up** | present | sun | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | sun | Primus en gin *not said here* | | | | strong *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gin=Theme | | 4 | **wid** | | De cow | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **stay** | present · do-support | Whipperwill Mr. | Good night *not said here* | | | | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme night=Location | | 6 | **not** **stay** | present · do-support | Whipperwill Mr. | | | | night | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **stay** | do-support | De cow *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/92/) - ↑ back to [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/)