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title: "Dis make de udder Crawfishes mighty mad, en dey sorter swarmed terg… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dis make de udder Crawfishes mighty mad, en dey sorter swarmed tergedder en draw'd up a kinder peramble wid some wharfo'es in it, en read her out in de 'sembly. Who acts: Dis, udder, swarmed tergedder en draw, wharfo'es. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 14

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"Dis make de udder Crawfishes mighty mad, en dey sorter swarmed tergedder en draw'd up a kinder peramble wid some wharfo'es in it, en read her out in de 'sembly.

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**Who acts:** Dis, udder, swarmed tergedder en draw, wharfo'es · **What happens:** make, crawfish, swarm, ' up, read out · **To what, where:** de, mighty mad en dey sorter, kinder peramble wid, udder

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis, udder, swarmed tergedder en draw, wharfo'es), 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:pg2306:8:14
# text = "Dis make de udder Crawfishes mighty mad, en dey sorter swarmed tergedder en draw'd up a kinder peramble wid some wharfo'es in it, en read her out in de 'sembly.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Crawfishes	crawfish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	en	en	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	swarmed	swarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
21	peramble	peramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	wharfo'es	wharfo'e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	sembly	sembly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Dis | de |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset de=Product |
| 2 | **crawfish** *in a quote* | present | udder | mighty mad en dey sorter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swarm** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **' up** *in a quote* | participle · passive | swarmed tergedder en draw *not said here* | a kinder peramble wid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **read out** *in a quote* | past | some wharfo'es in wid | udder |  | de |  | sembly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |

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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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