--- title: "'Sifter hol' water same ez a tray, Ef you fill it wid moss en dob i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Sifter hol' water same ez a tray, Ef you fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay; De Fox git madder de longer you stay-- Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.' Who acts: Ef, water, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef, water, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:25:30 # text = "'Sifter hol' water same ez a tray, Ef you fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay; De Fox git madder de longer you stay-- Fill it wid moss en dob it wid clay.' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Sifter Sifter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 hol hol NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 ez ez X FW Foreign=Yes 10 dep _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 dob dob NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 madder madder NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 28 de de ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 dob dob NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 wid wi VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** *in a quote* | present | Ef | water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | water | clay | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | you | Fox git madder | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fill** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | water | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | water | clay | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/31/) - ↑ back to [XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/25/)