Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 104

De Buckra man bin er set een eh piazza, an eh see wen de horse come up wid Buh Wolf der heng topper eh neck.

Who acts: De bin er, wen · What happens: set, see, come up · To what, where: een eh piazza, wid Buh Wolf · 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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De bin er, wen), 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	5 er	compound
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	compound
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 er	compound
5	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 piazza	nummod
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 piazza	amod
9	piazza	piazza	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piazza	appos
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	conj
14	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 horse	compound
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wen	conj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Wolf	amod
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Wolf	compound
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 Wolf	amod
23	heng	heng	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 topper	compound
24	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 der	nsubj
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 neck	amod
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 topper	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	set	past	De bin er	een eh piazza	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient piazza=Result
2	see	infinitive	De bin er not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come up	present	wen and de horse	wid Buh Wolf	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 104