🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 91

Enty you bin fix fuh kill me an me wife dis mornin arter you done gie we de freedom er you house?

Who acts: you, Enty, me, wife dis · What happens: fix, kill, dis, mornin, do, gie · To what, where: Enty, me, arter, we

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 (you, Enty, me, wife dis), 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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