Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 33

"Brer Possum, he lope off atter de butter, en dreckly here he come lopin' back wid his years a trimblin' en his tongue a hangin' out.

Who acts: Brer Possum, Possum, en · What happens: lope off, come, wi out, hangin · To what, where: atter, lopin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer Possum, Possum, en), 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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