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title: Look up en look aroun', Fling yo' burden on de groun', Hit's a gitti… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Look up en look aroun', Fling yo' burden on de groun', Hit's a gittin' mighty close on ter mornin'! Who acts: you, de groun. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 3

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Look up en look aroun', Fling yo' burden on de groun', Hit's a gittin' mighty close on ter mornin'!

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**Who acts:** you, de groun · **What happens:** look up, look, be · **To what, where:** en, aroun Fling yo, mighty close, ter 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 (you, de groun), 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:pg2306:40:3
# text = Look up en look aroun', Fling yo' burden on de groun', Hit's a gittin' mighty close on ter mornin'!
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	aroun	aroun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PART	POS	_	5	dep	_	_
7	Fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PART	POS	_	13	dep	_	_
15	Hit	Hit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | imperative | you *not said here* | en |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Attribute |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | aroun Fling yo and burden |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yo=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | de groun | a gittin's mighty close |  | ter mornin |  |  | tree rules |

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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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