Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 38

W'en I year Miss Sally gwine 'bout de house w'isslin' 'W'en I k'n read my titles cle'r--an' w'en I see de martins swawmin' atter sundown--an' w'en I year de peckerwoods confabbin' togedder dese moonshiny nights in my een er town--en I knows de hot wedder's a breakin' up, an' I know it's 'bout time fer po' fokes fer ter be rastlin' 'roun' and huntin' up dere rashuns.

Who acts: I, w'en, confabbin, de hot wedder, wedder, fokes · What happens: k'n, read, see, year, night, know up · To what, where: W'en, titles cle'r, de martins, een town, en, breakin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, w'en, confabbin, de hot wedder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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