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title: "YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the past week or two, Uncle Remus," said a gentleman to the old man. Who acts: old man, gentleman. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 1

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"YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the past week or two, Uncle Remus," said a gentleman to the old man.

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**Who acts:** old man, gentleman · **What happens:** look, be, say · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, gentleman), 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:pg2306:56:1
# text = "YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the past week or two, Uncle Remus," said a gentleman to the old man.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'VE	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | the old man *= man* | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme remus=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the old man *= man* |  |  |  | week | like the weather | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a gentleman |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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