Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 357

Buh Wolf mek answer: “Ef I bun you up, ef I knock you brains out, you guine dead too quick.

Who acts: Buh Rabbit, Buh mek answer · What happens: bun up, knock out · To what, where: you

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 Rabbit, Buh mek answer), 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	4 answer	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answer	amod
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knock	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Ef	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Ef	punct
7	Ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knock	nsubj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bun	nsubj
9	bun	bun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Ef	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bun	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 bun	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ef	punct
13	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Ef	conj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 knock	nsubj
15	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 knock	obj
17	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 you	nmod:unmarked
18	out	out	ADV	_	15 knock	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	obl:unmarked
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knock	advcl
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 quick	advmod
24	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dead	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bun up in a quote	present	Buh Rabbit = rabbit	you					tree rules
2	knock out in a quote	present	Buh mek answer	you				Ef and ef nsubj; I nsubj; out property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=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 357

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 357