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title: "Seem like I ain't never see no raw day like dat, needer befo' ner s… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Seem like I ain't never see no raw day like dat, needer befo' ner sence. Who acts: you, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 116

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"Seem like I ain't never see no raw day like dat, needer befo' ner sence.

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**Who acts:** you, en · **What happens:** seem, not see

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, en), 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:pg2306:46:116
# text = "Seem like I ain't never see no raw day like dat, needer befo' ner sence.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	needer	needer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present | en |  |  |  | day | like dat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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