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title: Hit look like ter me," continued the old man, leisurely refilling hi… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit look like ter me," continued the old man, leisurely refilling his pipe, "dat she sorter run like dis: One time ole Brer Possum, he git so hungry, he did, dat he bleedzd fer ter have a mess er 'simmons. Who acts: dat, Possum, Brer Possum. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 29

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Hit look like ter me," continued the old man, leisurely refilling his pipe, "dat she sorter run like dis: One time ole Brer Possum, he git so hungry, he did, dat he bleedzd fer ter have a mess er 'simmons.

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**Who acts:** dat, Possum, Brer Possum · **What happens:** hit, continue, refill, run, git, do · **To what, where:** look, old man, pipe, dat, Brer Possum, simmons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, Possum, Brer Possum), 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:pg2306:30:29
# text = Hit look like ter me," continued the old man, leisurely refilling his pipe, "dat she sorter run like dis: One time ole Brer Possum, he git so hungry, he did, dat he bleedzd fer ter have a mess er 'simmons.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
2	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	refilling	refill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ole	ole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
44	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	'	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	simmons	simmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | infinitive |  | look |  |  |  | like me | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme look=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **refill** *in a quote* | gerund |  | man's pipe |  |  |  | dat *obl*; leisurely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | present | dat | dat *not said here* |  |  |  | like dis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dat=Trajectory |
| 5 | **git** |  | Possum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past | Possum | Brer Possum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Eventuality |
| 7 | **bleedz** | past | Possum | dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | present | Brer Possum | a mess er's simmons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simmon=Patient |

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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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