Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 114

Ebry time eh try fuh ketch um fuh lick um, Buh Rabbit somehow er narruh slip tru eh han an git way.

Who acts: Ebry time, er · What happens: try, lick, slip · To what, where: ketch um, um, Buh Rabbit

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 (Ebry time, er), 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	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 time	compound
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slip	obl:unmarked
3	eh	eh	PART	_	4 try	mark
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 time	acl
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 um	discourse
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 um	compound
7	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 um	discourse
9	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lick	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 slip	obl
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	15 er	advmod
15	er	er	X	_	17 slip	nsubj
16	narruh	narruh	INTJ	_	17 slip	discourse
17	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	20 han	dep
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 han	amod
20	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slip	obj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 way	compound
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slip	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 slip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	infinitive	Ebry time not said here	ketch um			tree rules
2	lick not said to happen	infinitive	Ebry time not said here	um			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source
3	slip	infinitive	er	Buh Rabbit	time	a git way obl:unmarked; eh han obj	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent han=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 10, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 114