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title: OH, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes, Wid de blowin' er de t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: OH, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes, Wid de blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums? Who acts: we, whar shill, Wid de blowin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 1

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OH, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes, Wid de blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums?

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**Who acts:** we, whar shill, Wid de blowin · **What happens:** go, come, en · **To what, where:** w'en, bangin drums

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, whar shill, Wid de blowin), 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:pg2306:39:1
# text = OH, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes, Wid de blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums?
1	OH	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	whar	whar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shill	shill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	w'en	w'en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	obl	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	blowin	blowin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	trumpits	trumpit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
22	bangin	bangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	conj	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
26	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | we | w'en |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shill=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | whar shill |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **en** |  | Wid de blowin | bangin drums |  |  |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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