---
title: En yit de week's done commence. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En yit de week's done commence. Who acts: En yit. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [Turnip Salad As a Text](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/) / 7

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
En yit de week's done commence.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** En yit · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** commence

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En yit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:50:7
# text = En yit de week's done commence.
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	yit	yit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	commence	commence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | En yit 's de week *not said here* | commence |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commence=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/8/)
- ↑ back to [Turnip Salad As a Text](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/50/)