🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 49

Eh want fuh keep eh trone: so eh gen order teh eh head man fuh mek him soldier kill all de ole people een de nation, so de noung King shant hab no wise pusson fuh help um cahr on de bidness er de kingdom.

Who acts: Eh, eh gen order, wise pusson fuh, King shant hab · What happens: want, keep, kill, help, um · To what, where: trone, de ole people, King shant hab, cahr, de bidness

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 (Eh, eh gen order, wise pusson fuh, King shant hab), 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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