Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 268

Buh Rabbit say him no casion fuh hunt water: him lib off de jew on de grass.

Who acts: Buh, casion, um · What happens: say, hunt, lib off · To what, where: um, water, jew, de grass · 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 (Buh, casion, 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 casion	det
6	casion	casion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	nsubj
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 hunt	discourse
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lib	punct
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lib	nsubj
12	lib	lib	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 lib	compound:prt
14	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 jew	nmod:poss
15	jew	jew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lib	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 grass	case
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grass	amod
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lib	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh	um		tree rules
2	hunt	infinitive	no casion	water		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	lib off	infinitive	um	de's jew	de grass	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 268

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 268