🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 11

Wen dem mose git ter de place way de Ole Man gwine tun out de big road, Buh Rabbit hop outer de waggin dout de Ole Man shum, an run back an gedder all de fish wuh him bin tief.

Who acts: Wen dem, big road, dem · What happens: mose, tun out, hop, run back, de, bin · To what, where: git, outer de waggin dout, gedder, fish, tief

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen dem, big road, dem), 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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