🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 3

Den Buh Rabbit, him say: “Leh we hab some fun, an see who kin pull de strongis: Buh Porpus genst me an Buh Wolf.”

Who acts: Den, Leh, Buh · What happens: say, hab, see, pull, genst · To what, where: fun, de strongis, Den · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, Leh, Buh), 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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