Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 4

It's 'bout time dat I wuz spectin' fer ter hear un you in de chain-gang, an', stidder dat, hit's de chu'ch.

Who acts: dat, I, fer ter · What happens: be, wuz, hear · To what, where: time dat, spectin, you, de chain gang

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, I, fer ter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dat	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	cop
3	'	's	PART	_	2 's	case
4	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wuz	nsubj
8	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	acl:relcl
9	spectin	spectin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wuz	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 wuz	punct
11	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 ter	amod
12	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	nsubj
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dat	parataxis
14	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 you	compound
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 gang	case
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gang	amod
18	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gang	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 chain	punct
20	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dat	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dat	det
23	',	',	PUNCT	_	25 dat	punct
24	stidder	stidder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dat	compound
25	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gang	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 chu'ch	punct
27	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 de	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 hit	case
29	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chu'ch	compound
30	chu'ch	chu'ch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dat	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	dat	time dat		tree rules
2	wuz	present	I	spectin		tree rules
3	hear	infinitive	fer ter	you	de chain gang	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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

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