Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 4

Well, dey 'lected dat dey hatter hol' er 'sembly fer ter sorter straighten out marters en hear de complaints, en w'en de day come dey wuz on han'.

Who acts: marters, complaints · What happens: lect, straighten out, hear, come · To what, where: dey, dey wuz, han

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 (marters, complaints), 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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