🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 54

Eh no bin know dat wen de order gie fuh stroy all de ole people een de kingdom, de noung King hide eh farruh een one holler tree, an so eh mek eh scape from de soldier, an bin day fuh gen eh son sense.

Who acts: bin, ole people, King, een, gen · What happens: know, stroy, kingdom, hide, tree, sense · To what, where: een kingdom

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 (bin, ole people, King, een), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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