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title: De udder creeturs wuz too busy wid der fussin' fer ter 'spon' unto d… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De udder creeturs wuz too busy wid der fussin' fer ter 'spon' unto de Crawfishes. Who acts: udder creeturs. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 18

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De udder creeturs wuz too busy wid der fussin' fer ter 'spon' unto de Crawfishes.

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**Who acts:** udder creeturs · **What happens:** be, respond

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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 (udder creeturs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2306:373`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:8:18
# text = De udder creeturs wuz too busy wid der fussin' fer ter 'spon' unto de Crawfishes.
1	De	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	udder	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creeturs	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	wuz	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	wid	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	der	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fussin	fussing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	fer	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	ter	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	spon	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	de	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Crawfishes	Crawfish	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the udder creeturs |  |  |  |  | with der's fussin; busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the udder creeturs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the Crawfishes | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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