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title: Better de gravy dan no grease 'tall. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Better de gravy dan no grease 'tall. 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 4

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Better de gravy dan no grease 'tall.

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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: 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:pg2306:38:4
# text = Better de gravy dan no grease 'tall.
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	gravy	gravy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	dan	dan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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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