Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 32

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dey	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deloojes	nsubj
2	mout	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 deloojes	aux
3	er	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 deloojes	aux
4	bin	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 deloojes	cop
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 deloojes	nummod
6	deloojes	delooje	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moutent	punct
8	en	and	CCONJ	_	12 moutent	cc
9	den	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 moutent	advmod
10	agin	again	ADV	_	12 moutent	advmod
11	dey	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moutent	nsubj
12	moutent	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 deloojes	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 deloojes	punct

Pragmatics

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