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title: "Seem like dat de tale 'bout how he got mixt up wid de Tar-Baby got… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Seem like dat de tale 'bout how he got mixt up wid de Tar-Baby got 'roun' 'mongst de nabers. Who acts: you, Tar. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 13

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"Seem like dat de tale 'bout how he got mixt up wid de Tar-Baby got 'roun' 'mongst de nabers.

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**Who acts:** you, Tar · **What happens:** seem, mixt up, get · **To what, where:** dat, roun

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Tar), 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:pg2306:9:13
# text = "Seem like dat de tale 'bout how he got mixt up wid de Tar-Baby got 'roun' 'mongst de nabers.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bout	bout	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	mixt	mixt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	de	de	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	mongst	mongst	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	nabers	naber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like dat | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **mixt up** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | dat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Tar and Baby | roun |  |  |  | mongst de nabers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roun=Stimulus |

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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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