Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 1

"ONE time," said Uncle Remus--adjusting his spectacles so as to be able to see how to thread a large darning-needle with which he was patching his coat--"one time, way back yander, 'fo' you wuz bomed, honey, en 'fo' Mars John er Miss Sally wuz bomed--way back yander 'fo' enny un us wuz bomed, de animils en de creeturs sorter 'lecshuneer roun' 'mong deyselves, twel at las' dey 'greed fer ter have a 'sembly.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, Remus, you, thread, fer ter · What happens: say, adjust, be, see, patch, bom · To what, where: spectacles, coat, Sally wuz, un us wuz, mong deyselves, dey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, Remus, you, thread), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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