Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 102

All dis time de horse bin er cut sich caper Buh Wolf couldnt manage um, an so eh drap de bridle an heng on ter eh mange fuh keep from fall off.

Who acts: caper Wolf couldnt, eh · What happens: cut, manage, drap, bridle, keep off · To what, where: um, heng, eh mange fuh, fall

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 (caper Wolf couldnt, eh), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det
2	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl:unmarked
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 time	conj
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	compound
6	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 de	flat
7	er	er	ADV	_	8 cut	advmod
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caper	compound
10	caper	caper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 couldnt	compound
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 couldnt	compound
13	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 manage	nsubj
14	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	ccomp
15	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 manage	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drap	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drap	det
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 drap	advmod
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drap	nsubj
20	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	parataxis
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 bridle	dep
22	bridle	bridle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 drap	xcomp
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 heng	det
24	heng	heng	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bridle	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 fuh	case
26	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fuh	nsubj
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fuh	amod
28	mange	mange	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fuh	compound
29	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bridle	obl
30	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 drap	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 fall	case
32	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obl
33	off	off	ADV	_	30 keep	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past				time		tree rules
2	manage	present	caper Wolf couldnt	um				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
3	drap	present	eh					tree rules
4	bridle	infinitive	eh not said here	a heng	eh mange fuh ter			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent heng=Destination
5	keep off	present	eh not said here		fall		off property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from fall=Eventuality

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 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 102