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title: Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spr… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start. Who acts: mawnin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1, sentence 9

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Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start.

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**Who acts:** mawnin · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** spree, fresh start

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" \*1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mawnin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2306:35:9
# text = Monday mawnin' he'd git on a spree, en all dat week he'd be on a spree, en de nex' Monday mawnin' he'd take a fresh start.
1	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spree	spree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
13	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spree	spree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | mawnin |  |  | a spree and en  nex Monday mawnin | week | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | would | mawnin | a fresh start |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Theme |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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