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title: Present'y I feel 'im comin', an' dis time hit look like he kyar'd de… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Present'y I feel 'im comin', an' dis time hit look like he kyar'd de news unto Mary, fer hit feel like der wuz anudder wun wid 'im. Who acts: I, dis time, fer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, with its dependency tree
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 28

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Present'y I feel 'im comin', an' dis time hit look like he kyar'd de news unto Mary, fer hit feel like der wuz anudder wun wid 'im.

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**Who acts:** I, dis time, fer · **What happens:** feel, hit, look, de · **To what, where:** Present'y, dis time, news

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dis time, fer), 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:pg2306:52:28
# text = Present'y I feel 'im comin', an' dis time hit look like he kyar'd de news unto Mary, fer hit feel like der wuz anudder wun wid 'im.
1	Present'y	present'y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	nsubj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kyar	kyar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
27	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	anudder	anudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	wun	wun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | I | Present'y |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comin=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present |  | a dis time *not said here* |  |  |  | like kyar | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute |
| 4 | **de** | would | a dis time | news |  |  |  | unto Mary | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | past | fer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | fer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like wun wid's der im | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like im=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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