🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 99

Eh splutter, eh wabble, an arter awhile eh manage fuh ketch eh bref, an eh mount eh wing, an eh sail off teh one dead libe-oak tree, wuh grow on de bank, an eh set down day an eh pick eh fedder, an eh watch de blood duh drap from eh neck an leg, an eh say to isself: “Me nebber guine bodder long crab gen long as me lib.”

Who acts: eh, wing, blood duh, leg · What happens: wabble, manage, mount, grow, set down, drap · To what, where: Eh splutter, eh, de bank, eh eh fedder, eh neck, isself · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, wing, blood duh, leg), 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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