Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 30

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

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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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	De	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 settin	amod
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 settin	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dish	punct
4	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 settin	compound
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 settin	compound
6	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 settin	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 table	nmod:poss
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 settin	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	conj
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 en	amod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 wuz	case
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 kyarvin	det
17	kyarvin	kyarvin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knife	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 kyarvin	case
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 table	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 settin	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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