Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 366

De minnit Buh Rabbit drap in de brier patch, eh cock up eh tail, eh jump, an eh holler back to Buh Wolf: “Good bye, Budder!

Who acts: De minnit · What happens: drap, cock up · To what, where: de brier patch, tail

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 (De minnit), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 minnit	compound
2	minnit	minnit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drap	nsubj
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 minnit	appos
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	flat
5	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 patch	case
7	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 patch	amod
8	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 patch	compound
9	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drap	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cock	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 cock	discourse
12	cock	cock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drap	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 cock	compound:prt
14	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tail	det
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cock	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jump	punct
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 jump	amod
18	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 holler	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 holler	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 holler	amod
22	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jump	appos
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 holler	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 Wolf	case
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Wolf	compound
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 back	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Good	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Good	punct
29	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drap	parataxis
30	bye	bye	INTJ	_	29 Good	flat
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Budder	punct
32	Budder	budder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Good	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 drap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drap	present	De minnit			de brier patch			tree rules
2	cock up	infinitive	De minnit not said here	eh tail and eh jump					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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 366

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 366