🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 55

Arter de gentlemans done gone, de Serbant call eh Mossa one side an eh say: “Mossa, me willin fuh back anyting you say bout hunt an kill deer, but lemme bague you nex time you tell bout how you shoot um, you pit de hole closer.

Who acts: Arter gentlemans, Serbant, Mossa, you, bout · What happens: be, call, say, anything, hunt, nex · To what, where: eh, fuh anyting, kill deer, lemme bague, bout, um · 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 (Arter gentlemans, Serbant, Mossa, you), 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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