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title: W'en you hear me callin' de pigs, honey, you des hop up en onfassen… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en you hear me callin' de pigs, honey, you des hop up en onfassen de do'. Who acts: W'en, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 60

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W'en you hear me callin' de pigs, honey, you des hop up en onfassen de do'.

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**Who acts:** W'en, you · **What happens:** hear, hop up, do · **To what, where:** me, en onfassen

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en, you), 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:pg2306:10:60
# text = W'en you hear me callin' de pigs, honey, you des hop up en onfassen de do'.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	callin	callin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	des	des	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hop	hop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
17	onfassen	onfassen	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | W'en | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hop up** |  | you | en onfassen |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme onfassen=Trajectory |
| 3 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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