Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 359

Buh Rabbit say: “Do Buh Wolf, bun me: broke me neck, but dont trow me in de brier patch.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: say, do, break, trow · To what, where: Buh, de brier patch · 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), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
6	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Do	obj
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bun	punct
10	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	appos
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bun	appos
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 broke	punct
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Do	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 broke	obj
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trow	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 trow	cc
18	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	19 trow	dep
19	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 trow	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 patch	case
22	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 patch	amod
23	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 patch	compound
24	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trow	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	infinitive		Buh			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Eventuality
3	break in a quote	past		Buh		neck obj	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient neck=Result
4	trow in a quote	infinitive	Buh not said here	Buh	de brier patch		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 359

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 359