--- title: Hit's nuff fer ter fetch ole Miss right up out'n dat berryin'-groun'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's nuff fer ter fetch ole Miss right up out'n dat berryin'-groun' fum down dar in Putmon County, en w'at yo' gran'ma wouldn't er stood me en yo' ma ain't gwineter stan' nudder, en de nex time I hear 'bout sech a come off ez dis, right den en dar I'm boun' ter lay de case 'fo' Miss Sally. Who acts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/10/) [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/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on H…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/) / 10 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 10 Hit's nuff fer ter fetch ole Miss right up out'n dat berryin'-groun' fum down dar in Putmon County, en w'at yo' gran'ma wouldn't er stood me en yo' ma ain't gwineter stan' nudder, en de nex time I hear 'bout sech a come off ez dis, right den en dar I'm boun' ter lay de case 'fo' Miss Sally. **Who acts:** nuff fer ter, gran'ma, dar, ai, I, ter · **What happens:** fetch, fum down, not er, stand, not gwineter, hear · **To what, where:** dat, ole Miss, w'at yo, me, nudder, bout sech This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuff fer ter, gran'ma, dar, ai), 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:pg2306:30:10 # text = Hit's nuff fer ter fetch ole Miss right up out'n dat berryin'-groun' fum down dar in Putmon County, en w'at yo' gran'ma wouldn't er stood me en yo' ma ain't gwineter stan' nudder, en de nex time I hear 'bout sech a come off ez dis, right den en dar I'm boun' ter lay de case 'fo' Miss Sally. 1 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fetch fetch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 right right ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 up up ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 out'n out'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 12 dat dat X GW _ 6 obj _ _ 13 berryin berryin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 fum fum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Putmon Putmon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 County County PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 gran'ma gran'ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 er er VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 ai ai X FW Foreign=Yes 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 gwineter gwineter VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 42 stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 nudder nudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 49 dep _ _ 48 nex nex NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 52 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 bout bout NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 sech sech NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 56 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 59 amod _ _ 57 off off ADP RP _ 56 compound:prt _ _ 58 ez ez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 61 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 62 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 compound _ _ 63 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 65 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 cop _ _ 67 boun boun NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 70 punct _ _ 69 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 70 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 67 acl:relcl _ _ 71 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obj _ _ 73 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 72 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 74 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 77 case _ SpaceAfter=No 75 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 77 punct _ _ 76 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 77 compound _ _ 77 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fetch** | present | Hit's nuff fer ter | dat | ole Miss | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent miss=Beneficiary dat=Theme | | 2 | **fum down** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **er** | would | gran'ma | w'at yo *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | past | dar in Putmon County | me | | | | yo ma *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **gwineter** | infinitive | ai | stan's nudder and en and nex time | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hear** | present | I | bout sech | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sech=Stimulus | | 7 | **come off** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | I | boun | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **lie** | past | ter | de case | | | | for Miss Sally | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/11/) - ↑ back to [XXVII. 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