Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 33

"Den Brer Rabbit sorter pull his mustarsh, en say: 'You ain't got no calamus root, is you, Brer Fox?

Who acts: Den, mustarsh · What happens: pull, say, not get, be · To what, where: Brer Fox, calamus root, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, mustarsh), 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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