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title: "Dis look like mighty nice game, en Brer Fox 'greed. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dis look like mighty nice game, en Brer Fox 'greed. Who acts: Dis. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 23

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"Dis look like mighty nice game, en Brer Fox 'greed.

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**Who acts:** Dis · **What happens:** look

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis), 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:pg2306:14:23
# text = "Dis look like mighty nice game, en Brer Fox 'greed.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dis |  |  |  |  | like mighty nice game and en  Brer's greed | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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