Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 162

Wen eh tink Buh Alligatur done gone tersleep, eh tiptoe ebber so sofe tell eh come right pon top er Buh Alligatur.

Who acts: Wen eh, Buh, sofe · What happens: tink, do, tell, come · To what, where: gone tersleep, eh, pon · 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 (Wen eh, Buh, sofe), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tink	nsubj
3	tink	tink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tink	ccomp
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tersleep	amod
8	tersleep	tersleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ebber	punct
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ebber	amod
11	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ebber	compound
12	ebber	ebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tersleep	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 tell	advmod
14	sofe	sofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	advcl
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	conj
18	right	right	ADV	_	19 pon	advmod
19	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
20	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pon	amod
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 Alligatur	advmod
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Alligatur	compound
23	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 top	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tink	present	Wen eh		tree rules
2	do	past	Buh	gone tersleep and eh tiptoe ebber	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tersleep=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	sofe	eh	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient
4	come	present	sofe not said here	pon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 162

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 162