Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 19

Brer Fox, he so smart, he holler out, he did, en say he lay Brer Rabbit got de groun'-eatch, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter shet one eye, he did, en say, sezee:

Who acts: Fox, en, Brer, Rabbit, Brer Rabbit · What happens: holler out, do, say, lie, get, sorter · To what, where: de groun, one eye, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, en, Brer, Rabbit), 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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