Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 350

Den eh tek an loose Buh Rabbit from de Tar Baby, an eh tie um teh one spakleberry bush, an eh git switch an eh lick um tel eh tired.

Who acts: Den · What happens: tek, switch · To what, where: loose Buh Rabbit, de Tar, eh um tel

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	3 tek	nsubj
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	3 tek	discourse
3	tek	tek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Rabbit	det
5	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rabbit	amod
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rabbit	compound
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tek	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Tar	case
9	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tar	compound
10	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rabbit	nmod
11	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tar	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 um	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
15	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Tar	appos
17	teh	teh	ADP	_	20 bush	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bush	nummod
19	spakleberry	spakleberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bush	compound
20	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 git	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 git	det
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 git	amod
24	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bush	conj
25	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tek	parataxis
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tel	det
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tel	amod
28	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tel	compound
30	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 switch	obj
31	eh	eh	ADV	_	32 tired	advmod
32	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 switch	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tek	infinitive	Den	a loose Buh Rabbit		de Tar			tree rules
2	switch	infinitive		a eh um tel					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tel=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 350

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 350