🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 112

At lenk Buh Rabbit mek tense say eh gie way caze Buh Wolf bague um so bad, an eh say: “Well, Budder, you seem so anxious me gwine leh you tek me chance dis time, an me will haffer wait topper de Lord tel narruh tun.”

Who acts: Buh tense, eh, you, haffer · What happens: say, gie, seem, tek, haffer, wait · To what, where: lenk, way caze, anxious gwine leh, topper · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh tense, eh, you, haffer), 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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