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title: Look like dey er bleedzd ter take atter der pa." — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Look like dey er bleedzd ter take atter der pa." Who acts: you, bleedzd ter. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 33

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Look like dey er bleedzd ter take atter der pa."

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**Who acts:** you, bleedzd ter · **What happens:** look, take · **To what, where:** atter

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bleedzd ter), 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:pg2306:28:33
# text = Look like dey er bleedzd ter take atter der pa."
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
5	bleedzd	bleedzd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	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 dey | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | present | bleedzd ter | atter |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument atter=Theme pa=Destination |

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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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