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title: Dey mout er bin two deloojes, en den agin dey moutent. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey mout er bin two deloojes, en den agin dey moutent. Who acts: Dey. 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 32

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Dey mout er bin two deloojes, en den agin dey moutent.

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**Who acts:** Dey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** two deloojes

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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 (Dey), 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:pg2306:385`): 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:pg2306:8:32
# text = Dey mout er bin two deloojes, en den agin dey moutent.
1	Dey	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	mout	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	er	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	bin	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	deloojes	delooje	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	en	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	den	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	agin	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	dey	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	moutent	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | might · perfect | Dey *= they* | two deloojes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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