Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 13

Co'se w'en dat creetur put his foot down, w'atsumever's under dar wuz boun' fer ter be squshed, en dey wa'n't nuff er dat Crawfish lef' fer ter tell dat he'd bin dar.

Who acts: Co'se dat creetur, w'atsumever, dar wuz boun, nuff, dat Crawfish · What happens: put down, be, sqush, er, tell, bin · To what, where: foot, dar wuz boun, fer ter, en dey, dat, dar · 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 (Co'se dat creetur, w'atsumever, dar wuz boun, nuff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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