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title: Well, dat des 'zackly de way dey duz. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, dat des 'zackly de way dey duz. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 49

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Well, dat des 'zackly de way dey duz.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. 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:pg2306:34:49
# text = Well, dat des 'zackly de way dey duz.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	zackly	zackly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	duz	duz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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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