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title: You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. ' Who acts: You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, with its depend
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 35

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You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. '

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**Who acts:** You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel · **What happens:** look, stick up, mawnin, roll, not laff · **To what, where:** stuck dis mawnin, groun en

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel), 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:pg2306:5:35
# text = You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. '
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	',	',	PART	POS	_	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sezee	sezee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	',	',	PART	POS	_	18	dep	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	laft	laft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	laft	laft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stick up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mawnin** |  | sorter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll** | past | sezee and en den | stuck dis mawnin *not said here* |  | groun en |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mawnin=Theme on en=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **laff** | could | laft laft twel |  |  |  |  |  | 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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