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title: Den de Crawfishes, w'at dey wuz lef' un um, swarmed tergedder en dra… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de Crawfishes, w'at dey wuz lef' un um, swarmed tergedder en draw'd up anudder peramble wid sum mo' wharfo'es; but dey might ez well er sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane. Who acts: anudder peramble, Den Crawfishes. 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 17

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Den de Crawfishes, w'at dey wuz lef' un um, swarmed tergedder en draw'd up anudder peramble wid sum mo' wharfo'es; but dey might ez well er sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane.

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**Who acts:** anudder peramble, Den Crawfishes · **What happens:** swarm, ' up, mo, ez, sing · **To what, where:** Ole Dan

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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 (anudder peramble, Den Crawfishes), 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:pg2306:8:17
# text = Den de Crawfishes, w'at dey wuz lef' un um, swarmed tergedder en draw'd up anudder peramble wid sum mo' wharfo'es; but dey might ez well er sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Crawfishes	crawfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lef	lef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	swarmed	swarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	anudder	anudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	peramble	peramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	wharfo'es	wharfo'e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	ez	ez	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	er	er	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
34	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	Tucker	Tucker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	harrycane	harrycane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swarm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **' up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mo** |  | anudder peramble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ez** | might | Den Crawfishes  dey wuz lef and un um |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle | Den Crawfishes  dey wuz lef and un um *not said here* | Ole Dan |  |  |  | ter a harrycane | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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