🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 11

_Bactize_, baptize _Bague_, to beg _Barruh_, barrow _Beber_, beaver _Bedout_, without _Ben_, bend, bent, been _Berry_, very _Bes_, best _Bex_, vex, vexed _Bidness_, business _Biggin_, begin, began _Bimeby_, by and by, presently _Binner_, was, were _Bittle_, victuals _Blan_, in the habit of, accustomed to _Blanks_⎫ _Blants_⎭ belongs to _Bleebe_, believe _Bleege_, obliged, compelled _Bodder_, to bother _Bode_, board, boards _Bofe_, both _Bole_, bold _Boun_, resolved upon, forced to _Bredder_, brother _Bref_, breath _Bres_, breast _Bresh_, brush-wood, to brush _Broke up_, to leave, to depart _Brukwus_, breakfast _Buckra_, white man _Bud_, bird _Budduh_⎫ _Buh_ ⎭ brother _Buhhine_, behind _Bun_, burn _Buss_, burst, or break through

Who acts: Bactize, Bex, ⎭ · What happens: baptize, beg, bend, vex, begin, be · To what, where: Bague, Barruh, Bidness, Bimeby, habit, Bleebe · 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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bactize, Bex, ⎭), 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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