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title: THE PLOUGH-HANDS' SONG (JASPER COUNTY--1860.) — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: THE PLOUGH-HANDS' SONG (JASPER COUNTY--1860.) A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 85

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THE PLOUGH-HANDS' SONG (JASPER COUNTY--1860.)

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. 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:pg2306:41:85
# text = THE PLOUGH-HANDS' SONG (JASPER COUNTY--1860.)
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	PLOUGH	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	HANDS	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	SONG	SONG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	JASPER	JASPER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	COUNTY	COUNTY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	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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