🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 67

Buh Goat wife yeddy wuh Buh Wolf bin er play an sing, an eh say teh eh husbun: “Enty you yeddy wuh Buh Wolf duh play an duh sing: ‘Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house’?

Who acts: wife yeddy, Tenky · What happens: bin, play, say, do, house · To what, where: sing, teh, duh sing · 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 (wife yeddy, Tenky), 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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