🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 17

In after years the old man often recurred with manifest pride and satisfaction to this incident, and frequently cited this exploit in confirmation of his boast “dat no nigger teet ebber yet did git de better er me.”

Who acts: old man, dat, man · What happens: recur, cite, er, confirm, boast · To what, where: exploit, confirmation, triumph, boast

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, dat, man), 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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