Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 4

De dry wedder breaks wid a big thunder-clap, For dey ain't no drout' w'at kin las', But de seasons w'at whoops up de cotton crap, Likewise dey freshens up de grass.

Who acts: De dry wedder, dey ai, Likewise dey · What happens: break, whoop up, freshen up · To what, where: wid, de cotton crap, de grass

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De dry wedder, dey ai, Likewise dey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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