Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 18
De udder creeturs wuz too busy wid der fussin' fer ter 'spon' unto de Crawfishes.
Who acts: udder creeturs · What happens: be, respond
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | De | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creeturs | det |
| 2 | udder | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creeturs | amod |
| 3 | creeturs | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | wuz | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | wid | with | ADP | _ | 9 fussin | case |
| 8 | der | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fussin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fussin | fussing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | obl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fussin | punct |
| 11 | fer | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 spon | mark |
| 12 | ter | to | PART | _ | 14 spon | mark |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 spon | punct |
| 14 | spon | respond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 busy | advcl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 spon | punct |
| 16 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 18 Crawfishes | case |
| 17 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Crawfishes | det |
| 18 | Crawfishes | Crawfish | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 spon | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: 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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