--- title: De time is right now, en dish yer's de place-- Let de sun er salvash… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: De time is right now, en dish yer's de place-- Let de sun er salvashun shine squar' in yo' face; Fight de battles er de Lord, fight soon en fight late, En you'll allers fine a latch ter de golden gate. Who acts: De time, Fight, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/11/) [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/) / [I. Revival Hymn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/) / 11 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 11 De time is right now, en dish yer's de place-- Let de sun er salvashun shine squar' in yo' face; Fight de battles er de Lord, fight soon en fight late, En you'll allers fine a latch ter de golden gate. **Who acts:** De time, Fight, you · **What happens:** be, let, battle, fight, fine · **To what, where:** de place, de sun, yo, de Lord, en fight, latch ter 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 (De time, Fight, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:39:11 # text = De time is right now, en dish yer's de place-- Let de sun er salvashun shine squar' in yo' face; Fight de battles er de Lord, fight soon en fight late, En you'll allers fine a latch ter de golden gate. 1 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 4 right right ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 yer yer PRON PRP Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 15 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 16 compound _ _ 16 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 er er X FW _ 20 compound _ _ 18 salvashun salvashun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 shine shine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 squar squar NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 Fight Fight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 battles battle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 30 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 31 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 allers aller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 fine fine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 latch latch NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 47 flat:foreign _ _ 49 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | De time | de place and En | | | now | 's yer | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | | de sun | | yo and face | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient squar=Theme | | 3 | **battle** | present | Fight | de Lord | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fight** | present | Fight *not said here* | en fight | | | | late *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fine** | future | you | a latch ter and golden gate | | | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ter=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/39/12/) - ↑ back to [I. 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