🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 19

Den Buh Rabbit schway say: “Ef eh yender you, somebody else muster tief de Cow meat wen we all two bin gone;” an so eh fool Buh Pattridge, an mek um bleebe say strange people muster slip up an cahr off de meat, wen all de time him binner de tief, an hab um lock up safe een him house.

Who acts: Den schway, two bin, strange people, muster, Ef yender · What happens: say, go, slip up, lock up · To what, where: cahr · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den schway, two bin, strange people, muster), 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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