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title: Hit takes a heap er scrougin' For ter git you thoo-- Hop light, ladi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit takes a heap er scrougin' For ter git you thoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo! Who acts: Hit, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 129

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Hit takes a heap er scrougin' For ter git you thoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!

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**Who acts:** Hit, you · **What happens:** take, thoo · **To what, where:** heap

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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, you), 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:pg2306:41:129
# text = Hit takes a heap er scrougin' For ter git you thoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!
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	4	det	_	_
4	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	er	er	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	scrougin	scrougin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	For	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Loo	Loo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	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 heap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme |
| 2 | **thoo** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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