Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 53

Hit didn't strike me dat dey wuz enny war gwine on, en ef I hadn't sorter miss de nabers, en seed fokes gwine outer de way fer ter ax de news, I'd a 'lowed ter myse'f dat de war wuz 'way off 'mong some yuther country.

Who acts: I, en ef, gwine · What happens: not strike, have, not miss, ax, low · To what, where: me, en ef, nabers, seed fokes

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, en ef, gwine), 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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