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Description: | Mr Pearson talks about thatching and recalls a stack fire.
lexis
sprindle = hazel peg used to fasten thatch onto stack; stay = supporting beam, rafter; elevator = machine used for raising hay or straw to top of stack; again = against
phonology
MOUTH [{U]; START [a:]; PRICE [VI]; FACE [aI]; GOAT [6U]; LOT [A ~ Q]; TRAP [{]; BATH [a:]
note also first [f6st], roof [r/Uf] and fire [fA@]
grammar
neuter object pronoun ® hine (got a mallet and hammer hine in; I used thatch on the corn stack, build hine too; I built hine on the Tuesday and on Thursday it was all fire)
otiose of ® on (a dry time I was doing on it = I was doing it)
multiple negation (there wasn’t nobody to see it only myself; he didn’t save nothing else)
relative pronoun ® what (the stay what we’d got to pull to)
preterite come (the top stay come out; he come running behind)
zero to + infinitive (I used _ thatch on the corn stack, build hine too)
of + pronoun ® on (pulled it up the elevator and made a stack on it)
preterite see (I see this blaze coming down the field; I see that run down nearly as fast as can be)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (that was a good job we did)
past participle went (that was a good job we did or that would’ve went) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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