🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 89

Dist es eh bin guine tek de gal eh change eh mine, an eh tun ter eh old self, wid eh forky tail, an eh claw, an eh batwing, an eh owl yez, an eh blow fire outer eh mout, an eh bun up eh wife, an him farruh, an him murrer, an him bredder, an de house, an ebry ting wuh day een um.

Who acts: Dist es · What happens: change · To what, where: eh mine

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 (Dist es), 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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