🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 38

Een er leely wile de chune sweeten Buh Tiger so bad eh forgit ter foller de man, an eh tun roun an come down de tree, an him an Buh Bear graff han, an all two set een fuh dance.

Who acts: Een leely wile, an, man, two · What happens: sweeten, come down, han, set · To what, where: Buh Tiger, tree, een fuh dance

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 (Een leely wile, an, man, two), 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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