🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

Wen ebry body done gedder eh perwision, dem shet de do an gone ter dem house fuh ten ter dem bidness an wait tel winter come, wen dem gwine lib offer wuh dem bin pit way.

Who acts: Wen, gone ter dem house · What happens: do, wait, come, offer · To what, where: perwision, gone ter dem house, dem gwine lib

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, gone ter dem house), 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

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