🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 126

It really appeared as if there was scarcely a negro upon the plantation who did not have at least one tooth which “hot um,” and which “eh wan Buh Jack fuh pull out fuh um.”

Who acts: It, one tooth, wan Buh Jack · What happens: appear, be, not have, um, pull out · To what, where: one tooth, fuh um

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one tooth, wan Buh Jack), 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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