🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 157

Wen de sun duh lean fuh down, an de man bin a try fuh split one big log, Buh Snake crawl up long sider de log an show ehself ter de man.

Who acts: Wen sun, de man, try fuh, Buh, show · What happens: lean down, bin, split, crawl up, log, man · To what, where: one big log, long sider de

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen sun, de man, try fuh, Buh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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