--- title: Hit's a mighty pashent han', but de days is but few, W'en Satun, he'… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: Hit's a mighty pashent han', but de days is but few, W'en Satun, he'll come a demandin' un his due, En de stiff-neck sinners 'll be smotin' all fru- Oh, you better git ready for de mornin'! Who acts: Hit, few W'en, all. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/6/) [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/) / [II. Camp-meeting Song \*](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/) / 6 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 6 Hit's a mighty pashent han', but de days is but few, W'en Satun, he'll come a demandin' un his due, En de stiff-neck sinners 'll be smotin' all fru- Oh, you better git ready for de mornin'! **Who acts:** Hit, few W'en, all · **What happens:** be, come, git · **To what, where:** mighty pashent han, un This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song \*. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, few W'en, all), 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:pg2306:40:6 # text = Hit's a mighty pashent han', but de days is but few, W'en Satun, he'll come a demandin' un his due, En de stiff-neck sinners 'll be smotin' all fru- Oh, you better git ready for de mornin'! 1 Hit Hit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 pashent pashent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 10 nmod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 13 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 W'en W'en PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 16 Satun Satun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 demandin demandin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 26 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 29 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 28 flat:foreign _ _ 30 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 sinners sinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 smotin smotin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 nsubj _ _ 39 fru fru X FW Foreign=Yes 38 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 45 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 amod _ _ 45 git git NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 parataxis _ _ 46 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 de de PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 49 mornin mornin NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Hit | a mighty pashent han but days de | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | future | Hit | a demandin's un | | | | due *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location un=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | few W'en | | | | | smotin *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **git** | | all | | | | | | tree rules | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/7/) - ↑ back to [II. Camp-meeting Song \*](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/)