Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 29

Oh, honey! w'en you year dem little pigs a rootin'-- (Hey O!

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: 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 honey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 w'en	compound
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 honey	punct
5	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dem	nsubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 dem	nsubj
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dem	compound
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pigs	amod
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dem	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rootin	det
12	rootin	rootin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pigs	appos
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 rootin	punct
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 Hey	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 Hey	punct
16	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	8 dem	discourse
17	O	o	INTJ	_	16 Hey	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 dem	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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