Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 251

Wen eh git day, eh meet Buh Cooter puffin an er blowin an a leanin up gin de pose duh laugh at um.

Who acts: you · What happens: meet, pose, laugh · To what, where: Buh Cooter puffin, um

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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 meet	dislocated
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
3	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wen	punct
6	eh	eh	INTJ	_	7 meet	discourse
7	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 puffin	compound
9	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puffin	compound
10	puffin	puffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blowin	det
12	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blowin	compound
13	blowin	blowin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 leanin	det
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 leanin	det
16	leanin	leanin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blowin	appos
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 leanin	compound:prt
18	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leanin	conj
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 gin	flat:foreign
20	pose	pose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 meet	parataxis
21	duh	duh	INTJ	_	22 laugh	discourse
22	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 pose	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 um	case
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laugh	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	imperative	you not said here	Buh Cooter puffin		Wen dislocated; a er blowin obj	tree rules
2	pose	infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	infinitive			um		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 251

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 251