Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 118

Ho my Riley! dey eat en dey cram, En bimeby ole Miss 'll be a sendin' out de dram.

Who acts: Riley dey, ole Miss · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: en dey cram, sendin

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 (Riley dey, ole Miss), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Riley	compound
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Riley	nmod:poss
3	Riley	Riley	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dey	compound
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Riley	punct
5	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cram	compound
8	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cram	compound
9	cram	cram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 En	punct
11	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cram	appos
12	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	_	13 ole	advmod
13	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Miss	amod
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sendin	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sendin	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sendin	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sendin	det
18	sendin	sendin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cram	conj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 out	punct
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 sendin	compound
21	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dram	amod
22	dram	dram	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sendin	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Riley dey	en dey cram and a sendin and de dram					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cram=Patient
2	is a	future	ole Miss	a sendin and de dram					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.

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