🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 86

Wile Buh Wolf duh mek ehself saterfy say him hab Buh Rabbit an gwine eat um soon es de rain done ober, Buh Rabbit duh grabble, grabble, grabble onder de bottom er de pole, tel eh mek hole big nough, an den eh slip out, onbeknowinst teh Buh Wolf, an hop roun teh de front do, an eh holler teh Buh Wolf: “You duh sing an der play, ‘Tenk God, rain done sen meat een you house,’ but you yent eat um yet, an you yent gwine eat um.”

Who acts: Wile, Buh, es, Buh Rabbit, den eh, onbeknowinst · What happens: say, eat, do, grabble, slip out, sing · To what, where: mek, um, ober, de bottom, der play · 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 (Wile, Buh, es, Buh Rabbit), 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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