Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 2

"Now you talkin', honey," replied the old man, his earnest face breaking up into little eddies of smiles--"now you talkin' sho. '

Who acts: you, old man, earnest face · What happens: talkin, reply, break up · To what, where: honey, little eddies, sho · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man, earnest face), 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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