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title: Seem so lak man mus' git need*1 de shade. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Seem so lak man mus' git need*1 de shade. Who acts: you, git. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 11

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Seem so lak man mus' git need\*1 de shade.

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**Who acts:** you, git · **What happens:** seem, need · **To what, where:** 1

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, git), 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:pg2306:49:11
# text = Seem so lak man mus' git need*1 de shade.
1	Seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	lak	lak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | lak man mus's git | 1  de shade |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 1=Theme |

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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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