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title: Dey wa'n't no rain, but de wet des sifted down; mighty raw day. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey wa'n't no rain, but de wet des sifted down; mighty raw day. 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 117

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Dey wa'n't no rain, but de wet des sifted down; mighty raw day.

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**What happens:** sift down

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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:pg2306:46:117
# text = Dey wa'n't no rain, but de wet des sifted down; mighty raw day.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	wa'	wa'	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	sifted	sift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sift down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | de wet des | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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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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