Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 23

All dis time Brer Rabbit mighty nigh skeer'd outen his skin, en he fear'd fer ter move kaze de bucket might keel over en spill him out in de water.

Who acts: Rabbit mighty skeer, crope, fer ter, de bucket · What happens: outen, fear, move, keel, spill out · To what, where: skin, kaze, crope, en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit mighty skeer, crope, fer ter, de bucket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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