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title: "'W'at dat on yo' axe?' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'W'at dat on yo' axe?' A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 108

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"'W'at dat on yo' axe?'

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. 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:pg2306:46:108
# text = "'W'at dat on yo' axe?'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	W'at	W'at	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
8	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	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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