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title: Hit mighty ketchin', en you mine yo' eye, honey, dat somebody don't… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit mighty ketchin', en you mine yo' eye, honey, dat somebody don't cheat you 'fo' yo' ha'r git gray ez de ole nigger's." Who acts: you, somebody. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, with its dependency tree and t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 53

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Hit mighty ketchin', en you mine yo' eye, honey, dat somebody don't cheat you 'fo' yo' ha'r git gray ez de ole nigger's."

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**Who acts:** you, somebody · **What happens:** hit, mine, not cheat · **To what, where:** ketchin en, yo eye, you

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, somebody), 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:pg2306:21:53
# text = Hit mighty ketchin', en you mine yo' eye, honey, dat somebody don't cheat you 'fo' yo' ha'r git gray ez de ole nigger's."
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ketchin	ketchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	',	',	PART	POS	_	3	dep	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mine	mine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	cheat	cheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	ez	ez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
30	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | ketchin en |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **mine** | present | you | yo eye and honey |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **cheat** | present · do-support | somebody | you |  |  |  | ha'r git gray *obl* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source |

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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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