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title: "Hit look sorter cu'ous, boss, but ole an' steddy ez I is, I tuck'n… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hit look sorter cu'ous, boss, but ole an' steddy ez I is, I tuck'n kotch de meezles." Who acts: you, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 14

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"Hit look sorter cu'ous, boss, but ole an' steddy ez I is, I tuck'n kotch de meezles."

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**Who acts:** you, gentleman · **What happens:** hit, look, be, kotch · **To what, where:** sorter, steddy ez

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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 (you, 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:pg2306:56:14
# text = "Hit look sorter cu'ous, boss, but ole an' steddy ez I is, I tuck'n kotch de meezles."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	cu'ous	cu'ous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	ole	ole	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	steddy	steddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ez	ez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	tuck'n	tuck'n	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	meezles	meezle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | sorter |  |  |  | cu'ous *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sorter=Attribute |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a gentleman *= gentleman* | a steddy ez *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ez=Theme |
| 4 | **kotch** *in a quote* |  | a gentleman *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  | ole a steddy ez | 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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