🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 76

Buh Wolf tan by de bed, an eh ax Buh Rabbit: “Enty you tell de Gal, wuh we bin a cote, say me bin nuttne but you farruh ridin horse?”

Who acts: eh ax, Gal, we, de bed · What happens: rabbit, tell, bin, say, horse, tan · To what, where: Enty, Gal, cote, me, nuttne, Wolf tan · 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 (eh ax, Gal, we, de bed), 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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