Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 265

Ebry day, wen Buh Wolf yent duh watch um, eh slip to Buh Wolf spring, an eh full him calabash long water an cah um to eh house fuh cook long and fuh drink.

Who acts: Buh yent duh, cah um · What happens: watch, eh, cook · To what, where: um, house, long drink, Ebry day

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 (Buh yent duh, cah um), 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	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	compound
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wen	punct
4	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 duh	compound
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 duh	amod
8	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 watch	nsubj
9	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wen	acl:relcl
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slip	punct
12	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 slip	det
13	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 spring	case
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Wolf	compound
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 spring	compound
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slip	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 eh	det
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 full	obl
23	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eh	nmod
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
27	cah	cah	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 water	appos
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 eh	case
30	eh	eh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 um	acl
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eh	obj
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	33 cook	discourse
33	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 eh	conj
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 drink	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fuh	cc
36	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 long	conj
37	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cook	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	watch	present	Buh yent duh	um	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
2	eh	infinitive	a cah um not said here	house	tree rules
3	cook	infinitive	a cah um not said here	long drink	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent drink=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 265

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 265