--- title: "HIT look like ter me dat I let on de udder night dat in dem days w'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "HIT look like ter me dat I let on de udder night dat in dem days w'en de creeturs wuz santer'n 'roun' same like fokes, none un um wuz brash nuff fer ter ketch up wid Brer Rabbit," remarked Uncle Remus, reflectively. Who acts: HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/1/) [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/) / [XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/21/) / 1 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 1 "HIT look like ter me dat I let on de udder night dat in dem days w'en de creeturs wuz santer'n 'roun' same like fokes, none un um wuz brash nuff fer ter ketch up wid Brer Rabbit," remarked Uncle Remus, reflectively. **Who acts:** HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch · **What happens:** look, let on, nuff, wi, remark · **To what, where:** de udder night dat, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch), 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:pg2306:21:1 # text = "HIT look like ter me dat I let on de udder night dat in dem days w'en de creeturs wuz santer'n 'roun' same like fokes, none un um wuz brash nuff fer ter ketch up wid Brer Rabbit," remarked Uncle Remus, reflectively. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 HIT HIT PROPN ADD _ 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 ter ter ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 7 dat dat AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 12 udder udder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 w'en w'en X FW Foreign=Yes 17 conj _ _ 19 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 18 flat _ _ 20 creeturs creetur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ _ 21 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 santer'n santer'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 fokes foke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 31 compound _ _ 31 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 brash brash NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 nuff nuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 36 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 37 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 ketch ketch NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 41 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 46 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 reflectively reflectively ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | HIT | | | | | like Uncle Remus *= remus* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **let on** *in a quote* | | Uncle Remus *= remus* | de udder night dat | | | in dem days | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme | | 3 | **nuff** *in a quote* | | un um | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | fer ter ketch | Brer | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | Uncle Remus | Brer *not said here* | | | | reflectively *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | 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: [XVII. 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