Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 1

Buh Rabbit watch de Ole Man es eh pass day arter day long de big road, an eh hanker arter de fish, but eh yent know rightly how fuh git some.

Who acts: Buh, yent, some · What happens: watch, pass, de, hanker, know, git · To what, where: big road, arter

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, yent, some), 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 watch	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	de	de	ADP	_	7 es	case
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 es	amod
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 es	compound
7	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 watch	obl
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pass	amod
9	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watch	conj
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	obj
11	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	appos
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 de	advmod
14	de	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pass	advcl
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 road	amod
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 de	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eh	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eh	det
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 road	conj
20	hanker	hanker	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 de	conj
21	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hanker	obj
22	de	de	ADP	_	23 fish	case
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arter	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 know	cc
26	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 yent	det
27	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 know	nsubj
28	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watch	conj
29	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	28 know	advmod
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 fuh	advmod
31	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 git	amod
32	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 know	obl
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 git	nsubj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Buh			de Ole Man es	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	pass	present	Buh not said here		day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	de	present	Buh not said here	big road and a eh		long property	tree rules
4	hanker	infinitive	Buh not said here	arter		de fish	tree rules
5	know	present	eh yent			rightly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	git		some				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 10, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 1