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title: W'en Sat'day evenin' come, dey wuz all dere. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: W'en Sat'day evenin' come, dey wuz all dere. Who acts: W'en evenin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 13

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W'en Sat'day evenin' come, dey wuz all dere.

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**Who acts:** W'en evenin · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** dey wuz

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'en evenin), 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:pg2306:33:13
# text = W'en Sat'day evenin' come, dey wuz all dere.
1	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Sat'day	Sat'day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	evenin	evenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | W'en evenin | dey wuz |  |  |  | all dere *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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