Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 1

"ONE time," said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself back in his seat with an air of melancholy resignation-- "one time Brer Rabbit wuz gwine 'long down de road shakin' his big bushy tail, en feelin' des ez scrumpshus ez a bee-martin wid a fresh bug."

Who acts: Uncle Remus, big bushy tail · What happens: say, sigh, settle back, bug · To what, where: Remus, seat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, big bushy tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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