🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 13

De King tek um say eh bin mean de bud, an eh confidance rise, an eh mek answer: “You right, me yiz hab one robin een me hat; an becase you tell true, me gwine gie you six day mo fuh fine out who tief de Ring.”

Who acts: De tek um, eh bin, you, me gwine, six day mo · What happens: say, mean, tell, gie, tief · To what, where: de bud, becase, you · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De tek um, eh bin, you, me gwine), 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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