Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 86

NIGGER mighty happy w'en he layin' by co'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Nigger mighty happy w'en he year de dinner-ho'n-- Dat sun's a slantin'; En he mo' happy still w'en de night draws on-- Dat sun's a slantin'; Dat sun's a slantin' des ez sho's you bo'n!

Who acts: Dat sun, Nigger, happy de night, you · What happens: be, w'en, year, mo, draw on, bo'n · To what, where: slantin, En mo

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 (Dat sun, Nigger, happy de night, you), 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

Pragmatics

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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