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title: Looks won't do ter split rails wid. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Looks won't do ter split rails wid. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 34

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Looks won't do ter split rails wid.

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**What happens:** look, not ter, split · **To what, where:** rails wid

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:38:34
# text = Looks won't do ter split rails wid.
1	Looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	ter	ter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **look** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **ter** | future · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **split** | infinitive |  | rails wid |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wid=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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