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title: Dem w'at eats kin say grace. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem w'at eats kin say grace. Who acts: Dem w'at. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 2

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Dem w'at eats kin say grace.

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**Who acts:** Dem w'at · **What happens:** eat, say · **To what, where:** grace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem w'at), 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:pg2306:38:2
# text = Dem w'at eats kin say grace.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Dem w'at |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Dem w'at *not said here* | grace |  |  |  | kin *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic |

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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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