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title: "'Look like you gwineter have chicken fer dinner, Brer Fox,' sez Bre… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Look like you gwineter have chicken fer dinner, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 31

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"'Look like you gwineter have chicken fer dinner, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, have, say · **To what, where:** chicken fer dinner, Brer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2306:4:31
# text = "'Look like you gwineter have chicken fer dinner, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sez	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | chicken fer dinner and Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |

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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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