Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 57

Dey b'ars de skyar er dat bresh-heap down ter dis day.

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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 b'ars	compound
2	b'ars	b'ar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 b'ars	flat:foreign
4	skyar	skyar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 er	amod
5	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
6	dat	dat	X	_	2 b'ars	nmod
7	bresh	bresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heap	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bresh	punct
9	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	goeswith
10	down	down	ADP	_	6 dat	compound:prt
11	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dis	compound
12	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	flat
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 b'ars	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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.

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