Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 154

Eh know Buh Alligatur blan come out de ribber an sun isself in de broom-grass fiel.

Who acts: you · What happens: know, come out · To what, where: Buh, de ribber · 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 know	discourse
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
4	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	flat
5	blan	blan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	list
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	ccomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ribber	amod
9	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ribber	obj
12	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sun	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 fiel	case
14	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fiel	amod
15	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grass	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 broom	punct
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fiel	compound
18	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	imperative	you not said here	Buh blan					tree rules
2	come out	present		de ribber a sun isself				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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.

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 154

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 154