--- title: "'Hit look like 'periently dat de ole hardshell ain't nowhars 'longs… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Hit look like 'periently dat de ole hardshell ain't nowhars 'longside er dis crowd, yit yer I is, en I'm de same man w'at show Brer Rabbit dat he ain't de swiffes'; en I'm de same man w'at kin show Brer B'ar dat he ain't de stronges',' sezee. Who acts: ai, one eye, longside en, en. A sentence of « --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/14/) [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/) / [XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/) / 14 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 14 "'Hit look like 'periently dat de ole hardshell ain't nowhars 'longside er dis crowd, yit yer I is, en I'm de same man w'at show Brer Rabbit dat he ain't de swiffes'; en I'm de same man w'at kin show Brer B'ar dat he ain't de stronges',' sezee. **Who acts:** ai, one eye, longside en, en, de same w'at kin · **What happens:** hit, look, not longside, be, show · **To what, where:** longside en, de same man w'at, Rabbit dat, de same w'at kin, Brer dat This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ai, one eye, longside en, en), 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:pg2306:29:14 # text = "'Hit look like 'periently dat de ole hardshell ain't nowhars 'longside er dis crowd, yit yer I is, en I'm de same man w'at show Brer Rabbit dat he ain't de swiffes'; en I'm de same man w'at kin show Brer B'ar dat he ain't de stronges',' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 4 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 periently periently ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 de de ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 ole ole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hardshell hardshell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 12 ai ai X FW Foreign=Yes 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 14 nowhars nowhar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 ' 's PART POS _ 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 longside longside NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 17 er e ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 18 dis dis NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 yit yit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 acl:relcl _ _ 33 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 34 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 40 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 39 obl _ _ 41 swiffes swiffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' 's PART POS _ 41 case _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 44 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 47 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 48 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 kin kin NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 53 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 54 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 flat _ _ 55 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 60 advmod _ _ 59 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 60 compound _ _ 60 stronges stronge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ', ', PART POS _ 60 case _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ' 's PART POS _ 60 case _ _ 63 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | like dat | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **longside** *in a quote* | | ai | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | longside en | | | | de ole hardshell | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | one eye and en *= eye* | de same man w'at | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **show** *in a quote* | present | longside en | Rabbit dat | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | en | de same w'at kin | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **show** *in a quote* | present | de same w'at kin | Brer dat | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient | 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: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/29/15/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. 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