--- title: "Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye,… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: "Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye, The Black Douglas shall not get ye." Who acts: ye, Black Douglas. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [The Black Douglas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/) / 28 # Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 28 "Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye, The Black Douglas shall not get ye." **Who acts:** ye, Black Douglas · **What happens:** hush, not fret, not get · **To what, where:** ye This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Black Douglas), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg18442:13:28 # text = "Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye, The Black Douglas shall not get ye." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hush hush INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 hush hush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ _ 10 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Hush Hush PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 hush hush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 fret fret VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Douglas Douglas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 29 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hush** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye | ye | | | | little pet *vocative*; ye *obl:unmarked*; Hush ye *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | | 2 | **hush** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | ye | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | | 3 | **not** **fret** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | ye | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | shall | the Black Douglas | ye | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus | 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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/29/) - ↑ back to [The Black Douglas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/)