--- title: Hit hope me up might'ly de udder day w'en I hear Miss Sally layin' d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit hope me up might'ly de udder day w'en I hear Miss Sally layin' down de law 'bout you en dem Favers chillun, yit, lo en behol's, de fus news I knows yer you is han'-in-glove wid um. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Po --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/9/) [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/) / 9 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 9 Hit hope me up might'ly de udder day w'en I hear Miss Sally layin' down de law 'bout you en dem Favers chillun, yit, lo en behol's, de fus news I knows yer you is han'-in-glove wid um. **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** hit, hope up, hear, know, be · **To what, where:** me, de day w'en, fus news, han 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 (I, you), 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:pg2306:30:9 # text = Hit hope me up might'ly de udder day w'en I hear Miss Sally layin' down de law 'bout you en dem Favers chillun, yit, lo en behol's, de fus news I knows yer you is han'-in-glove wid um. 1 Hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 2 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 might'ly might'ly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 6 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 9 compound _ _ 7 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 w'en w'en NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Sally Sally PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 layin layin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 18 compound _ _ 18 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 bout bout ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 22 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 23 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Favers faver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 chillun chillun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 yit yit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 lo lo INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 behol behol NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 36 advmod _ _ 35 fus fus ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 39 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 glove glove NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 48 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hope up** | present | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | present | I | de day w'en | | | | bout you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer layin=Stimulus | | 4 | **know** | present | I | fus news | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yer=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | you | han and glove and wid um | | | | | tree rules | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/30/10/) - ↑ back to [XXVII. 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