--- title: Hit start holler at de bottom, en stay holler plum der de top, en de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit start holler at de bottom, en stay holler plum der de top, en de honey's des natchully oozin' out, en ef you'll drap yo' 'gagements en go longer me,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'you'll git a bait dat'll las' you en yo' fambly twel de middle er nex' mont',' sezee. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, en, gagements en, bait dat), 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:pg2306:31:40 # text = Hit start holler at de bottom, en stay holler plum der de top, en de honey's des natchully oozin' out, en ef you'll drap yo' 'gagements en go longer me,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'you'll git a bait dat'll las' you en yo' fambly twel de middle er nex' mont',' sezee. 1 Hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 plum plum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 der d ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 13 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 14 compound _ _ 14 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 20 advmod _ _ 18 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 natchully natchully ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 oozin oozin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 drap drap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 gagements gagement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 compound _ _ 35 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 41 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 42 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 bait bait NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 55 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ' 's PART POS _ 55 case _ _ 57 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 58 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ _ 61 fambly fambly ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 acl:relcl _ _ 63 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 64 advmod _ _ 64 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 65 er er X FW _ 66 compound _ _ 66 nex nex NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ _ 68 mont mont NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ' 's PART POS _ 68 case _ _ 71 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | start holler | | de bottom | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent holler=Theme at bottom=Destination | | 2 | **stay out** | present | en | holler plum | | | | der de top and en des oozin *obl*; en ef *obl* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme plum=Location | | 3 | **drap** | future | you | yo | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | gagements en | | | | | long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 6 | **git** | future | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **twel** | future | a bait dat | middle er nex and mont and sezee | | | | fambly *property* | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/41/) - ↑ back to [XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/)