🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 93

Buh Rabbit say: “Hole on, Buh Wolf, me cant set on you back dout fall off: me mus hab someting fuh steady me; you mus gimme someting fuh me fuh hole on ter.

Who acts: Buh, you, mus hab, mus gimme · What happens: say, hole on, set, dout, fall off, hab · To what, where: Buh Wolf, cant set, 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, mus hab, mus gimme), 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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