🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 71

Buh Wolf say: “Buh Rabbit, you mus lemme in: you de only man wuh kin ten ter de bidness wuh bring me yuh.”

Who acts: Buh, you · What happens: say, de, bring · To what, where: man, Buh · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, you), 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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