Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 29

W'iles dey wuz gwine 'long dey come up wid a passel er fokes w'at wuz havin' wanner deze yer fote er July bobbycues, en de Ole Boy, he 'low dat maybe he kin git some mo' game, en w'at do he do but jine in wid um.

Who acts: W'iles, long dey, dey wuz gwine, fokes, fote, mo game · What happens: gwine, come up, wi, havin, dat, kin · To what, where: passel, git, wid um

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 (W'iles, long dey, dey wuz gwine, fokes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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