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title: Hit grow in de groun', hit grow so free; Ti-yi! dem goober pea.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit grow in de groun', hit grow so free; Ti-yi! dem goober pea.' Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 7

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Hit grow in de groun', hit grow so free; Ti-yi! dem goober pea.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** grow, hit · **To what, where:** yi goober pea, de groun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:26:7
# text = Hit grow in de groun', hit grow so free; Ti-yi! dem goober pea.'
1	Hit	hit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Ti	ti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	yi	yi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	goober	goober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | yi goober pea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** | past | you *not said here* |  |  | de groun |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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