Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 33

De little chaps dey got 'roun' de wood, dey did, en dey lif' at it so hard twel dey could see der own sins, but de wood ain't budge.

Who acts: De dey, roun, dey, hard twel dey, de wood · What happens: get, wood, do, see, not budge · To what, where: roun, de wood, der own sins

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De dey, roun, dey, hard twel dey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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