--- title: De farmer gits ready w'en de lan's all plowed For ter sow dem seeds… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: De farmer gits ready w'en de lan's all plowed For ter sow dem seeds in de mornin' De sperrit may be puny en de flesh may be proud, But you better cut loose fum de scoffin' crowd, En jine dose Christuns w'at's a cryin' out loud Fer de Lord fer ter come in de mornin'! Who acts: De, ter, De sperrit, de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/8/) [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/) / 8 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song \*, sentence 8 De farmer gits ready w'en de lan's all plowed For ter sow dem seeds in de mornin' De sperrit may be puny en de flesh may be proud, But you better cut loose fum de scoffin' crowd, En jine dose Christuns w'at's a cryin' out loud Fer de Lord fer ter come in de mornin'! **Who acts:** De, ter, De sperrit, de flesh, w'at, Fer fer ter · **What happens:** farm, plow, sow, be, cut, fum · **To what, where:** gits, lan, dem seeds, puny en, de mornin, crowd 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 (De, ter, De sperrit, de flesh), 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:pg2306:40:8 # text = De farmer gits ready w'en de lan's all plowed For ter sow dem seeds in de mornin' De sperrit may be puny en de flesh may be proud, But you better cut loose fum de scoffin' crowd, En jine dose Christuns w'at's a cryin' out loud Fer de Lord fer ter come in de mornin'! 1 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 farmer farm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 gits git NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 w'en w'en X FW Foreign=Yes 7 nmod _ _ 6 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat _ _ 7 lan Lan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 all all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 plowed plow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 11 For for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sow sow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 dem dem NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 18 compound _ _ 18 mornin mornin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 sperrit sperrit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 puny puny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 26 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 27 compound _ _ 27 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 But but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ _ 35 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 36 loose loose ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 fum fum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 38 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 39 compound _ _ 39 scoffin scoffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 44 jine jine NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 46 Christuns Christun PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 45 appos _ _ 47 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 cryin cryin NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ _ 52 out out ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 loud loud ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 54 Fer Fer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 55 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 flat _ _ 56 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 flat _ _ 57 fer f ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 58 amod _ _ 58 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nsubj _ _ 59 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 62 compound _ _ 62 mornin mornin NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **farm** | past | De | gits | | | | 's lan ready w'en | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Patient | | 2 | **plow** | participle | | lan ready w'en *not said here* | | | | all *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sow** | present | ter | dem seeds | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | may | De sperrit | puny en | | de mornin | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | may | de flesh | puny en *not said here* | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **cut** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **fum** | present | | de scoffin's crowd and En jine dose | | | | loose *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | present | w'at | a cryin | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **come** | present | Fer fer ter | | | de mornin | | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mornin=Location | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/9/) - ↑ back to [II. Camp-meeting Song \*](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/40/)