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title: Black gal sweet, Same like goodies w'at de w'ite folks eat; Ho my Ri… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Black gal sweet, Same like goodies w'at de w'ite folks eat; Ho my Riley! don't you take'n tell 'er name, En den ef sumpin' happen you won't ketch de blame; Hi my rinktum! better take'n hide yo' plum; Joree don't holler eve'y time he fine a wum. Who acts: w'ite folks, Ho Riley, you, rinktum. A senten
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 94

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Black gal sweet, Same like goodies w'at de w'ite folks eat; Ho my Riley! don't you take'n tell 'er name, En den ef sumpin' happen you won't ketch de blame; Hi my rinktum! better take'n hide yo' plum; Joree don't holler eve'y time he fine a wum.

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**Who acts:** w'ite folks, Ho Riley, you, rinktum, Joree, de · **What happens:** eat, do, tell, happen, not ketch, hide · **To what, where:** goodies w'at, you, er name, blame, Black gal, wum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (w'ite folks, Ho Riley, you, rinktum), 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:pg2306:41:94
# text = Black gal sweet, Same like goodies w'at de w'ite folks eat; Ho my Riley! don't you take'n tell 'er name, En den ef sumpin' happen you won't ketch de blame; Hi my rinktum! better take'n hide yo' plum; Joree don't holler eve'y time he fine a wum.
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	goodies	goodie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	w'ite	w'ite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Riley	Riley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	take'n	take'n	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sumpin	sumpin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
32	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	ketch	ketch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
37	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	rinktum	rinktum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
44	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	amod	_	_
45	take'n	take'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
47	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	Joree	Joree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
52	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	holler	holler	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
55	eve'y	eve'y	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	wum	wum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | w'ite folks | goodies w'at *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | my Ho Riley *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | my Ho Riley *not said here* | er name |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent name=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **ketch** | future | you | de's blame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hide** | present | my rinktum and better take'n | Black gal |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **holler** *speech: other* | present · do-support | Joree |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fine** | past | rinktum | a wum |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wum=Recipient |
| 9 | **blame** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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