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title: Hit wuz too fur fer ter see his face, but I know'd 'im by de filly w… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hit wuz too fur fer ter see his face, but I know'd 'im by de filly w'at I raise fer 'im, en she wuz a prancin' like a school-gal. Who acts: you, I, wuz. 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 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 126

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Hit wuz too fur fer ter see his face, but I know'd 'im by de filly w'at I raise fer 'im, en she wuz a prancin' like a school-gal.

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**Who acts:** you, I, wuz · **What happens:** hit, see, know, im, raise, wuz · **To what, where:** wuz, face, fer, prancin

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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, I, wuz), 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:pg2306:46:126
# text = Hit wuz too fur fer ter see his face, but I know'd 'im by de filly w'at I raise fer 'im, en she wuz a prancin' like a school-gal.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	im	im	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	filly	filly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	prancin	prancin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | wuz |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent wuz=Patient fur=Result |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | en's face |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **im** | would | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by de filly w'at | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | present | I | fer and im and en |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Theme |
| 6 | **wuz** | present | wuz | a prancin and a school gal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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