🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 60

Wen Buh Fox wife come teh, eh spicion say Buh Fox bin know who kill eh pa,--wuh bin Buh Roccoon,--an eh tell eh husbun, Buh Fox, say ef eh dont git eh pa body an bring um ter um dat berry night, eh gwine tell Buh Lion him bliebe de one wuh cut eh farruh--Buh Coon--head off an hide um, duh eh own husbun,--Buh Fox.

Who acts: Wen Fox wife, spicion, Buh Fox bin, eh pa body, gwine, bliebe · What happens: come, say, know, kill, bring, tell · To what, where: pa, ef, um, bin · 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 (Wen Fox wife, spicion, Buh Fox bin, eh pa body), 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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