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title: De dish-pan wuz settin' on de table, en close by wuz a kyarvin' knife. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De dish-pan wuz settin' on de table, en close by wuz a kyarvin' knife. 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 30

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De dish-pan wuz settin' on de table, en close by wuz a kyarvin' knife.

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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:pg2306:4:30
# text = De dish-pan wuz settin' on de table, en close by wuz a kyarvin' knife.
1	De	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kyarvin	kyarvin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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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