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title: The Plough-hands Song V. Christmas Play-Song VI. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The Plough-hands Song V. Christmas Play-Song VI. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 39

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The Plough-hands Song V. Christmas Play-Song VI.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2306:3:39
# text = The Plough-hands Song V. Christmas Play-Song VI.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Plough	Plough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Play	Play	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	VI	VI	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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