Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 43

W'iles dey wuz sputin' over de wunderment, Brer Rabbit say he see tracks all 'roun' dar, en he p'int out dat ef dey'll all go ter sleep, he kin ketch de chap w'at stole de butter.

Who acts: W'iles, dar, roun dar, ketch chap w'at, ter · What happens: say, see, p'int out, go, kin, steal · To what, where: Brer, tracks, sleep, de butter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (W'iles, dar, roun dar, ketch chap w'at), 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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