--- title: Ef dey wuz enny ark in dish yer w'at de Crawfishes brung on, I ain't… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Ef dey wuz enny ark in dish yer w'at de Crawfishes brung on, I ain't heern tell un it, en w'en dey ain't no arks 'roun', I ain't got no time fer ter make um en put um in dar. Who acts: wuz enny ark, en, I, dey ai. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz enny ark, en, I, dey ai), 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:pg2306:8:33 # text = Ef dey wuz enny ark in dish yer w'at de Crawfishes brung on, I ain't heern tell un it, en w'en dey ain't no arks 'roun', I ain't got no time fer ter make um en put um in dar. 1 Ef Ef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 enny enny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 ark ark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 yer y ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 9 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 Crawfishes crawfish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 brung brung NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 heern heern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 w'en w'en NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 flat _ _ 25 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 arks ark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 ' 's PART POS _ 29 case _ SpaceAfter=No 31 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 ai be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 42 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ _ 45 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crawfish on** | present | wuz enny ark in dish and yer w'at de | brung | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | wuz enny ark in dish and yer w'at de *not said here* | un | un | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent un=Recipient it=Topic | | 3 | **ai** | | en | no arks's roun | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **get** | present | I | no time fer ter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ter=Stimulus | | 5 | **make** | present | dey ai | um en | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset en=Product | | 6 | **put** | participle | um en *not said here* | um | | dar | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent um=Theme in dar=Destination | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/34/) - ↑ back to [V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/)