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title: "'Spit in yo' han's en tug it en toll it, En git behime it, en push… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Spit in yo' han's en tug it en toll it, En git behime it, en push it, en pole it; Spit in yo' han's en r'ar back en roll it.' Who acts: singin, Spit, han. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tre
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 35

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"'Spit in yo' han's en tug it en toll it, En git behime it, en push it, en pole it; Spit in yo' han's en r'ar back en roll it.'

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**Who acts:** singin, Spit, han · **What happens:** en, toll, behime, push, pole, roll · **To what, where:** en tug, singin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singin, Spit, han), 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:pg2306:25:35
# text = "'Spit in yo' han's en tug it en toll it, En git behime it, en push it, en pole it; Spit in yo' han's en r'ar back en roll it.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tug	tug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	en	en	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	toll	toll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	behime	behime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Spit	Spit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
33	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	r'ar	r'ar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **en** *in a quote* | past | singin | han's en tug *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **toll** *in a quote* | infinitive | singin *not said here* | singin |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **behime** *in a quote* |  | singin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push** *in a quote* | present | Spit in yo and En git behime and en | singin |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme it=Destination |
| 5 | **pole** *in a quote* |  | singin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **roll** *in a quote* |  | Spit in yo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **tug** *in a quote* |  | han |  |  |  |  |  | nom tug «act transitive»: poss=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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