Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 147

Buh Alligatur, him mek answer: “No, Budder, nuttne nebber bodder me.

To what, where: Buh mek answer

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answer	compound
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buh	nmod
5	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Budder	punct
9	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 Budder	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 No	punct
11	Budder	budder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bodder	punct
13	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nebber	compound
14	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bodder	compound
15	bodder	bodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Budder	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bodder	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 147

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 147