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title: DE ole bee make de honey-comb, De young bee make de honey, De nigger… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: DE ole bee make de honey-comb, De young bee make de honey, De niggers make de cotton en co'n, En de w'ite folks gits de money. Who acts: ole bee, De young bee, De niggers, de en co'n. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade, with its de
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 1

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DE ole bee make de honey-comb, De young bee make de honey, De niggers make de cotton en co'n, En de w'ite folks gits de money.

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**Who acts:** ole bee, De young bee, De niggers, de en co'n, gits · **What happens:** make, folk, de · **To what, where:** de honey comb, de honey, money

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ole bee, De young bee, De niggers, de en co'n), 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:pg2306:43:1
# text = DE ole bee make de honey-comb, De young bee make de honey, De niggers make de cotton en co'n, En de w'ite folks gits de money.
1	DE	DE	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	advmod	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	niggers	nigger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
21	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	co'n	co'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
29	gits	git	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | ole bee | de honey comb |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Product |
| 2 | **make** | present | De young bee | de honey |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present | De niggers |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **folk** |  | de en co'n |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **de** | present | gits | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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