Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 230

Den Buh Cooter, him git mad, an eh tell Buh Deer dat ef eh does slow eh hab de bes win, an eh bet Buh Deer eh could beat um to de fibe mile pose.

Who acts: Den, bes, Buh eh · What happens: dat, do, win, beat, de · To what, where: ef eh, slow eh hab, eh bet, um, mile pose

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 (Den, bes, Buh eh), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dat	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	list
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Den	nmod
6	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl:unmarked
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Den	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tell	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	amod
11	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	conj
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Deer	compound
13	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	conj
14	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	compound
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dat	obj
17	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dat	ccomp
18	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hab	amod
19	eh	eh	X	_	20 hab	compound
20	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 does	obj
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 hab	flat:foreign
22	bes	be	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 win	nsubj
23	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hab	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bet	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bet	det
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bet	amod
27	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	obl
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 eh	compound
29	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Buh	flat
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beat	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 beat	aux
32	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bet	acl:relcl
33	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beat	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 de	mark
35	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 beat	advcl
36	fibe	fibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mile	compound
37	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pose	compound
38	pose	pose	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 de	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dat	past	Den Cooter cant and a eh tell and Buh Deer	ef eh	tree rules
2	do	present	Den Cooter cant and a eh tell and Buh Deer not said here	slow eh hab	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hab=Eventuality
3	win	present	bes	a eh bet	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hab=Eventuality
4	beat	could	Buh eh	um	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme
5	de	to-infinitive	Buh eh not said here	mile pose	tree rules

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 230

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 230