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title: Hit's a mighty long ways up de mountain side, En dey ain't no place… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit's a mighty long ways up de mountain side, En dey ain't no place fer dem sinners fer ter hide, En dey ain't no place whar sin kin abide, W'en de Lord shill come in de mornin'! Who acts: Hit, fer ter, place, mighty long ways. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 2

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Hit's a mighty long ways up de mountain side, En dey ain't no place fer dem sinners fer ter hide, En dey ain't no place whar sin kin abide, W'en de Lord shill come in de mornin'!

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**Who acts:** Hit, fer ter, place, mighty long ways · **What happens:** be, hide, not be, come in · **To what, where:** mighty long ways, dem sinners, whar sin kin, de mornin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song \*. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, fer ter, place, mighty long ways), 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:pg2306:40:2
# text = Hit's a mighty long ways up de mountain side, En dey ain't no place fer dem sinners fer ter hide, En dey ain't no place whar sin kin abide, W'en de Lord shill come in de mornin'!
1	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
34	abide	abide	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
37	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
39	shill	shill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	in	in	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	compound	_	_
43	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hit | a mighty long ways |  |  |  | W'en *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | present | fer ter | no dem sinners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinner=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | place | no whar sin kin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come in** | present | a mighty long ways | de mornin |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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