🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 126

De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man rale skade now, an eh study fuh leely while, an den eh questun gen: “Ef you no come fuh Mossa, ner Mistis, ner de Obersheer, who de Debbie you come fuh?”

Who acts: De, you, ner · What happens: shake, come, de · To what, where: eh head, Mossa, Debbie · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, you, ner), 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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