---
title: It's 'bout time dat I wuz spectin' fer ter hear un you in de chain-g… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/62/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/62/) / 4

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** dat, I, fer ter · **What happens:** be, wuz, hear · **To what, where:** time dat, spectin, you, de chain gang

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:62:4
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	spectin	spectin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	',	',	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	stidder	stidder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	chu'ch	chu'ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/62/3/)
- next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/62/5/)
- ↑ back to [XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/62/)