Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 295

Den Buh Rabbit say: “Leely Gal, mobe, me tell you, so me kin dip some water outer de spring long me calabash.”

Who acts: Den · What happens: say, tell, dip · To what, where: Leely Gal, you, water · 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 (Den), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Gal	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Gal	punct
7	Leely	Leely	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gal	compound
8	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mobe	punct
10	mobe	mobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Gal	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Gal	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dip	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 dip	advmod
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 dip	nsubj
18	kin	kin	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 dip	aux
19	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	conj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dip	obj
22	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spring	amod
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 spring	compound
24	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dip	obl:unmarked
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 dip	advmod
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 dip	obj
27	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dip	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Den	Leely Gal and mobe				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gal=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Den	Leely Gal and mobe not said here	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	dip in a quote		Den	some water		spring	calabash obj; long property	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 295

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 295