🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 81

Eh fool Buh Bear, an eh mek um bliebe say eh bin de rock wuh gib sich er rich flaber ter de soup, wen de fac bin say de rock yent hab nuttne fuh do long um, but de tarruh ting wuh gone een de pot, dem duh de ting wuh mek de soup.

Who acts: Eh fool, fac bin, de rock, de ting wuh · What happens: say, gib, do, go · To what, where: eh bin, sich, wen, long um, een pot · 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 (Eh fool, fac bin, de rock, de ting wuh), 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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