--- title: HIT'S a gittin' mighty late, w'en de Guinny-hins squall, En you bett… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: HIT'S a gittin' mighty late, w'en de Guinny-hins squall, En you better dance now, ef you gwineter dance a tall, Fer by dis time termorrer night you can't hardly crawl, Kaze you'll hatter take de hoe ag'in en likewise de maul-- Don't you hear dat bay colt a kickin' in his stall? Who acts: HIT, mighty --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/125/) [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/) / [III. Corn-shucking Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/) / 125 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 125 HIT'S a gittin' mighty late, w'en de Guinny-hins squall, En you better dance now, ef you gwineter dance a tall, Fer by dis time termorrer night you can't hardly crawl, Kaze you'll hatter take de hoe ag'in en likewise de maul-- Don't you hear dat bay colt a kickin' in his stall? **Who acts:** HIT, mighty late w'en de Guinny hins, En, you · **What happens:** be, squall, dance, not crawl, take, not hear · **To what, where:** termorrer night, Kaze, bay colt, stall · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking 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, mighty late w'en de Guinny hins, En, 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:pg2306:41:125 # text = HIT'S a gittin' mighty late, w'en de Guinny-hins squall, En you better dance now, ef you gwineter dance a tall, Fer by dis time termorrer night you can't hardly crawl, Kaze you'll hatter take de hoe ag'in en likewise de maul-- Don't you hear dat bay colt a kickin' in his stall? 1 HIT hit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'S be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 gittin gittin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 7 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 w'en w'en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 13 compound _ _ 11 Guinny Guinny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 hins hin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 squall squall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 18 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ef ef NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 gwineter gwinet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ _ 25 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 Fer Fer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 vocative _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 termorrer termorrer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 crawl crawl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Kaze Kaze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 46 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 hoe hoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 ag'in ag'in NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 50 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 de de PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 maul maul NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 -- -- PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 Do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 57 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 55 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 56 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 58 dat that DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 bay bay NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 colt colt NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 kickin kickin NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 66 nmod:poss _ _ 66 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | HIT | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **squall** *speech: other* | present | a gittin's mighty late w'en de Guinny hins | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **dance** | present | En you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **crawl** | can | you | termorrer night *not said here* | | | | hardly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location night=Theme | | 5 | **take** | future | you | Kaze | | | | a tall Fer by dis time *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | | 6 | **not** **hear** | infinitive · do-support | you | that bay colt | | hatter's stall | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer colt=Stimulus | 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 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/41/126/) - ↑ back to [III. 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