Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 18

Dey sorter come on wid a col', like--leas'ways dat's how I commence fer ter suffer, an' den er koff got straddle er de col'--one dese yer koffs w'at look like hit goes ter de foundash'n.

Who acts: Dey sorter, I, fer ter, er, koffs w'at, hit · What happens: come, commence, suffer, get, look, go · To what, where: wid, straddle, one dese, ter foundash'n

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey sorter, I, fer ter, er), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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