Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 3

De raccoon totes a bushy tail, De 'possum totes no ha'r, Mr. Rabbit, he come skippin' by, He ain't got none ter spar'.

Who acts: De raccoon, possum, raccoon · What happens: tote, come, not get · To what, where: bushy tail, ha'r, skippin, none ter spar

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De raccoon, possum, raccoon), 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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