🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 42

De ting skade de gal so bad eh scacely hab han fuh shet de do an lock um gen. But arter a while eh manage fuh do dat, an den eh mek hase an heng de key way eh bin fine um.

Who acts: skade de gal, den eh · What happens: do, manage, hase · To what, where: shet, dat

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 (skade de gal, den eh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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