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title: So dar dey wuz, de Crawfishes, en dey didn't know w'at minnit wuz gw… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: So dar dey wuz, de Crawfishes, en dey didn't know w'at minnit wuz gwineter be de nex'; en dey kep' on gittin madder en madder en skeerder en skeerder, twel bimeby dey gun de wink ter de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en den dey bo'd little holes in de groun' en went down outer sight." Who acts: dar
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 19

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So dar dey wuz, de Crawfishes, en dey didn't know w'at minnit wuz gwineter be de nex'; en dey kep' on gittin madder en madder en skeerder en skeerder, twel bimeby dey gun de wink ter de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en den dey bo'd little holes in de groun' en went down outer sight."

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**Who acts:** dar dey wuz, wuz gwineter, en dey, madder en, en · **What happens:** not know, be, kep, wink, go down · **To what, where:** de nex, gittin, ter, outer sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dar dey wuz, wuz gwineter, en dey, madder en), 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:pg2306:8:19
# text = So dar dey wuz, de Crawfishes, en dey didn't know w'at minnit wuz gwineter be de nex'; en dey kep' on gittin madder en madder en skeerder en skeerder, twel bimeby dey gun de wink ter de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en den dey bo'd little holes in de groun' en went down outer sight."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	dar	dar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Crawfishes	crawfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	kep	kep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	madder	mad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
31	madder	mad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
32	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
33	skeerder	skeerder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	skeerder	skeerder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
42	wink	wink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
43	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	de	de	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	Mud	Mud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Turkle	Turkle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
48	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
50	Lizzud	Lizzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
53	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	bo	bo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
57	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	_
63	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
64	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	acl:relcl	_	_
65	down	down	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
66	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | dar dey wuz and de Crawfishes and en dey |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | wuz gwineter | de nex |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kep** | infinitive | en dey |  |  | gittin |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wink** | present | madder en  madder en en skeerder and twel and bimeby and gun de | ter and en |  |  |  | de Turkle en | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient |
| 5 | **go down** | past | en | outer sight |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient groun=Extent |

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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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