Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 240

Wen de time come fur run de race, Buh Deer an Buh Cooter bofe stat off togedder.

Who acts: Wen time, fur, Buh · What happens: come, run, stat · To what, where: de race

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 time, fur, Buh), 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	3 time	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	ccomp
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 race	compound
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Buh	punct
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 race	appos
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stat	det
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 stat	nsubj
14	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stat	compound
15	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stat	compound
16	stat	stat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	appos
17	off	off	ADP	_	18 togedder	case
18	togedder	togedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stat	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Wen time			tree rules
2	run	present	fur	de race		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory
3	stat		Buh		off togedder	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 240

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 240