Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 109

Buh Wolf nebber did fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fix dis plan fuh pit um een de Buckra man han, an eh tell Buh Rabbit heap er tenky fuh de faber wuh him bin done ter um.

Who acts: Buh nebber, Buh · What happens: say, fix, do · To what, where: dis plan, bin · 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 (Buh nebber, 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 nebber	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	fine	fine	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fix	nsubj
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
11	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plan	compound
13	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fix	obj
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
15	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plan	appos
17	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 um	flat
18	de	de	ADP	_	21 han	case
19	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 han	compound
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 han	compound
21	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tell	det
24	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tell	amod
25	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	parataxis
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 heap	compound
27	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heap	compound
28	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 er	compound
29	er	er	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind Typo=Yes	25 tell	iobj
30	tenky	tenky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fuh	amod
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 faber	compound
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 faber	compound
33	faber	faber	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 er	flat
34	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	29 er	discourse
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 er	goeswith
36	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 er	flat
37	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 bin	acl
38	ter	ter	ADP	_	39 um	case
39	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 done	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Buh nebber		a eh tell er um parataxis; fine, out property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fix	present	Buh	dis plan		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
3	do	participle		bin not said here	ter um	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 109