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title: Dey stan' up mighty squar' ontwell dere dues commence ter cramp um,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey stan' up mighty squar' ontwell dere dues commence ter cramp um, an' dey don't stan' de racket wuf a durn. Who acts: Dey stan. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 17

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Dey stan' up mighty squar' ontwell dere dues commence ter cramp um, an' dey don't stan' de racket wuf a durn.

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**Who acts:** Dey stan · **What happens:** commence, not stan · **To what, where:** cramp um, racket wuf

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey stan), 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:pg2306:64:17
# text = Dey stan' up mighty squar' ontwell dere dues commence ter cramp um, an' dey don't stan' de racket wuf a durn.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	squar	squar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	ontwell	ontwell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dues	due	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	commence	commence	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	stan	stan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	wuf	wuf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	durn	durn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | present | Dey stan | cramp um and a dey |  |  |  | up mighty squar | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **stan** | present · do-support | Dey stan *not said here* | racket wuf |  |  |  |  | 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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