🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 58

Wen de Dog gone fuh gedder de moss an git de fire, Buh Rabbit call ter de Goose an ax um: “How you duh watch me wen you no see me?”

Who acts: de fire, you, wen · What happens: call, watch, see · To what, where: ter, de fire, gone fuh de moss · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (de fire, you, wen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

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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