Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 10

"I can't skacely call to mine 'zackly w'at dey did do, but dey spoke speeches, en hollered, en cusst, en flung der langwidge 'roun' des like w'en yo' daddy wuz gwineter run fer de legislater en got lef'.

Who acts: little boy, zackly w'at dey, dey, en, des, legislater en · What happens: not call, do, speak, holler, fling, run · To what, where: little boy, speeches, en cusst, der langwidge, lef · 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 (little boy, zackly w'at dey, dey, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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