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title: All de buzzards in de settlement 'll come to de gray mule's funer'l. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: All de buzzards in de settlement 'll come to de gray mule's funer'l. Who acts: de buzzards. 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 57

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All de buzzards in de settlement 'll come to de gray mule's funer'l.

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**Who acts:** de buzzards · **What happens:** come, de · **To what, where:** funer'l

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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 (de buzzards), 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:pg2306:38:57
# text = All de buzzards in de settlement 'll come to de gray mule's funer'l.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	buzzards	buzzard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	funer'l	funer'l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | all de buzzards in de settlement |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **de** | to-infinitive | all de buzzards in de settlement *not said here* | gray mule's funer'l |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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