Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 8

"I year Miss Sally readin' dis mawnin," continued the old man, "dat a man wuz comin' down yer fer ter take keer er de wedder-- wunner deze yer Buro mens w'at goes 'roun' a puttin' up an' pullin' down."

Who acts: old man, year Sally readin, wuz comin, dat · What happens: year, continue, take, go · To what, where: old man, er de wedder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, year Sally readin, wuz comin, dat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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