🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 74

But Buh Wolf cist so strong, Buh Rabbit slip to de do, an eh draw de bolt, an eh tiptoe back ter eh bed, an den eh say: “Well Budder, ef you mus see me, bad off es me yiz, come in.”

Who acts: Rabbit slip, bolt, you, de · What happens: do, say, see, come in, bolt · To what, where: Budder, bolt · 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 (Rabbit slip, bolt, you, de), 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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