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title: Hit takes a bee fer ter git de sweetness out'n de hoar-houn' blossom. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit takes a bee fer ter git de sweetness out'n de hoar-houn' blossom. Who acts: Hit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 61

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Hit takes a bee fer ter git de sweetness out'n de hoar-houn' blossom.

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**Who acts:** Hit · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** bee fer

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit), 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:pg2306:38:61
# text = Hit takes a bee fer ter git de sweetness out'n de hoar-houn' blossom.
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	out'n	out'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	hoar	hoar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	houn	houn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Hit | a bee fer |  |  |  | ter git; de sweetness out'n | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fer=Theme blossom=Destination |

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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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