Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 26

Down da, we set need de shade an' eaty de rice-bud, an' de crab, an' de swimp tree time de day; an' de buckra man drinky him wine, an' smoky him seegyar all troo de night.

Who acts: we, man drinky, him wine · What happens: need, wine, seegyar · To what, where: da, troo

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: who acts (we, man drinky, him wine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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