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title: "'All a settin', Brer Fox. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'All a settin', Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 13

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"'All a settin', Brer Fox.

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. 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:pg2306:4:13
# text = "'All a settin', Brer Fox.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PART	POS	_	5	dep	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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