Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 23

But dey er yer, dough.

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 dey	cc
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	er	er	ADV	_	4 yer	advmod
4	yer	y	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 dey	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dough	punct
6	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dey	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dey	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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