Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 276

Buh Wolf no question um no mo; but eh know say eh bin Buh Rabbit fuh true, an eh fix plan fuh ketch um.

Who acts: eh · What happens: know, say · To what, where: eh bin, Wolf question · 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 (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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wolf	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 question	compound
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	um	um	ADP	_	7 mo	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 mo	det
7	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 question	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
10	eh	eh	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 question	ccomp
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	ccomp
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bin	amod
14	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bin	appos
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	flat
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 true	discourse
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bin	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 plan	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plan	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 plan	amod
22	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plan	compound
23	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 true	conj
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	23 plan	discourse
25	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plan	appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	eh						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		eh bin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=Topic

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 276

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 276