--- title: Dey bo'd inter de groun' en kep' on bo'in twel dey onloost de founta… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Dey bo'd inter de groun' en kep' on bo'in twel dey onloost de fountains er de yeth; en de waters squirt out, en riz higher en higher twel de hills wuz kivvered, en de creeturs wuz all drownded; en all bekaze dey let on 'mong deyselves dat dey wuz bigger dan de Crawfishes." Who acts: Dey bo, en, de f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [V. the Story of the Deluge and How It…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/) / 22 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 22 Dey bo'd inter de groun' en kep' on bo'in twel dey onloost de fountains er de yeth; en de waters squirt out, en riz higher en higher twel de hills wuz kivvered, en de creeturs wuz all drownded; en all bekaze dey let on 'mong deyselves dat dey wuz bigger dan de Crawfishes." **Who acts:** Dey bo, en, de fountains, en waters, higher twel de hills, creeturs · **What happens:** inter, kep, er, squirt out, wuz, kivver · **To what, where:** groun, de yeth, bo'in twel, en riz, higher en, en 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 (Dey bo, en, de fountains, en waters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:8:22 # text = Dey bo'd inter de groun' en kep' on bo'in twel dey onloost de fountains er de yeth; en de waters squirt out, en riz higher en higher twel de hills wuz kivvered, en de creeturs wuz all drownded; en all bekaze dey let on 'mong deyselves dat dey wuz bigger dan de Crawfishes." 1 Dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bo bo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 inter inter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 4 dep _ _ 6 groun groun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 kep kep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 bo'in bo'in NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 14 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 onloost onloost NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 fountains fountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 er er VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 20 compound _ _ 20 yeth yeth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 22 flat:foreign _ _ 24 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 squirt squirt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 riz riz NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 33 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 kivvered kivver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 40 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 39 flat:foreign _ _ 41 creeturs creetur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wuz wuz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 all all ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 drownded drownd VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 46 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 49 det _ _ 48 bekaze bekaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 50 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 mong mong NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 deyselves deyselve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ _ 55 dat dat ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 58 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 60 amod _ _ 59 dan dan NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 61 Crawfishes crawfish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inter** | would | Dey bo | groun | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kep** | infinitive | en | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **er** | present | de fountains | de yeth | | bo'in twel | | | tree rules | | 4 | **squirt out** | present | en waters | en riz and higher en and en | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **wuz** | present | higher twel de hills | higher en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **kivver** | participle | higher twel de hills *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wuz** | present | creeturs | en *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **drownd** | participle | creeturs *not said here* | | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **let** | infinitive | en | | | mong deyselves | | dat dey wuz | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent on deyselve=Asset | | 10 | **crawfish** | present | bigger dan de | dey wuz *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/23/) - ↑ back to [V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/)