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title: Look like hit's mighty wrong; but hit's des dat away. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Look like hit's mighty wrong; but hit's des dat away. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 64

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Look like hit's mighty wrong; but hit's des dat away.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, hit · **To what, where:** des dat

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2306:20:64
# text = Look like hit's mighty wrong; but hit's des dat away.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	obj	_	_
11	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like hit | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hit** | past |  | des dat |  |  |  | away *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent 's=Patient dat=Result |

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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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