Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 37

Hit tored up de groun' all 'roun', en de dogs, dey rush up, but dey wa'n't no rabbit dar; but bimeby Mars Jeems, he seed de dogs tuckin' der tails 'tween der legs, en he look up, en dar wuz de rabbit caperin' 'roun' on a toom stone, en wid dat Mars Jeems say he sorter feel like de time done come w'en yo' gran'ma was 'specktin' un him home, en he call off de dogs en put out.

Who acts: you, dogs, dey, der tails, Mars, w'en yo · What happens: hit, tor up, rush up, not dar, seed, leg · To what, where: bimeby Mars, en, specktin un, dogs en · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dogs, dey, der tails), 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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