🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 104

One time eh gone ter one wise Cunjur Man fuh larne um him way, an fuh git him knowledge, so him kin stonish tarruh people an mek dem bliebe say him bin wise mo ner ebrybody.

Who acts: One time eh, eh, mek dem bliebe, tarruh people · What happens: go, um, stonish, people, say, bin · To what, where: One time eh, man, eh, wise ner ebrybody · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One time eh, eh, mek dem bliebe, tarruh people), 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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