🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 68

Buh Rabbit so skade eh furgit fuh lie, an Buh Wolf mek um confess eh yent know how fuh ketch Groun-mole, dat eh nebber did kill none, an dat eh bin lib offer Buh Wolf bittle ebber sence eh leff.

Who acts: Wolf um, yent, nebber, eh · What happens: confess, know, kill, offer · To what, where: eh, fuh ketch, none, furgit fuh lie · 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 (Wolf um, yent, nebber, eh), 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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