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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 1

"HIT look like ter me dat I let on de udder night dat in dem days w'en de creeturs wuz santer'n 'roun' same like fokes, none un um wuz brash nuff fer ter ketch up wid Brer Rabbit," remarked Uncle Remus, reflectively.

Who acts: HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch · What happens: look, let on, nuff, wi, remark · To what, where: de udder night dat, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HIT, Uncle Remus, un um, fer ter ketch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

punctnsubjcasecaseoblauxnsubjconjcompound:prtcompoundcompoundcompoundobjcasecompoundnmodconjflatapposcompoundconjpunctconjpunctamodcaseoblpunctcompoundcompoundnsubjcompoundcompoundnmodamodcompoundnsubjcompound:prtacl:relclobjflatpunctpunctaclcompoundobjpunctadvmodpunctroot"PUNCTHITPROPNlookVERBlikeADPterADPmePRONdatAUXIPRONletVERBonADPdeNOUNudderNOUNnightNOUNdatNOUNinADPdemNOUNdaysNOUNw'enXdeXcreetursNOUNwuzNOUNsanter'nNOUN'PUNCTrounNOUN'PUNCTsameADJlikeADPfokesNOUN,PUNCTnonePRONunNOUNumNOUNwuzNOUNbrashNOUNnuffNOUNferADJterNOUNketchNOUNupADPwidVERBBrerPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTremarkedVERBUnclePROPNRemusPROPN,PUNCTreflectivelyADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 lookpunct
2HITHITPROPN_3 looknsubj
3looklookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4likelikeADP_6 mecase
5terterADP_6 mecase
6meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 lookobl
7datdatAUXVerbForm=Fin9 letaux
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 letnsubj
9letletVERBVerbForm=Inf3 lookconj
10ononADP_9 letcompound:prt
11dedeNOUNNumber=Sing14 datcompound
12udderudderNOUNNumber=Sing14 datcompound
13nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing14 datcompound
14datdatNOUNNumber=Sing9 letobj
15ininADP_17 dayscase
16demdemNOUNNumber=Sing17 dayscompound
17daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur14 datnmod
18w'enw'enXForeign=Yes17 daysconj
19dedeXForeign=Yes18 w'enflat
20creeturscreeturNOUNNumber=Plur18 w'enappos
21wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing22 santer'ncompound
22santer'nsanter'nNOUNNumber=Sing20 creetursconj
23''PUNCT_24 rounpunct
24rounrounNOUNNumber=Sing22 santer'nconj
25''PUNCT_24 rounpunct
26samesameADJDegree=Pos24 rounamod
27likelikeADP_28 fokescase
28fokesfokeNOUNNumber=Plur26 sameobl
29,,PUNCT_35 nuffpunct
30nonenonePRONPronType=Neg31 uncompound
31ununNOUNNumber=Sing32 umcompound
32umumNOUNNumber=Sing35 nuffnsubj
33wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing35 nuffcompound
34brashbrashNOUNNumber=Sing35 nuffcompound
35nuffnuffNOUNNumber=Sing28 fokesnmod
36ferfADJDegree=Cmp38 ketchamod
37terterNOUNNumber=Sing38 ketchcompound
38ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing40 widnsubj
39upupADP_38 ketchcompound:prt
40widwiVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 nuffacl:relcl
41BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing40 widobj
42RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing41 Brerflat
43,,PUNCT_45 remarkedpunct
44""PUNCT_45 remarkedpunct
45remarkedremarkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass41 Breracl
46UncleUnclePROPNNumber=Sing47 Remuscompound
47RemusRemusPROPNNumber=Sing45 remarkedobj
48,,PUNCT_49 reflectivelypunct
49reflectivelyreflectivelyADV_45 remarkedadvmod
50..PUNCT_3 lookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look in a quotepresentHITlike Uncle Remus = remusvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2let on in a quoteUncle Remus = remusde udder night datin dem daysvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme
3nuff in a quoteun umtree rules
4wi in a quotepastfer ter ketchBrertree rules
5remark speech: assertparticipleUncle RemusBrer not said herereflectively propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic

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.

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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