Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 18

"De blacksmif, he sail in fer ter have his fun, en he have so much dat he done clean forgot 'bout his contrack, but bimeby, one day he look down de road, en dar he see de Bad Man comin', en den he know'd de year wuz out.

Who acts: sot, De blacksmif, much dat, Bad Man comin · What happens: sail, have, do, forget, look down, see · To what, where: fer ter, fun, de, en den, year wuz

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sot, De blacksmif, much dat, Bad Man comin), 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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