Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 115

Buh Wolf, him hire edder people fuh wuk plan fuh git de better er Buh Rabbit an pit um een eh power, but, bless you soul! dem fail too, an Buh Rabbit, him go clear.

Who acts: Buh, um · What happens: hire, bless, go · To what, where: fuh wuk plan, edder people, you

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, um), 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	5 hire	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hire	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hire	nsubj
5	hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	edder	edder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	compound
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hire	obj
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plan	amod
9	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	compound
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hire	obj
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	12 git	discourse
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	appos
13	de	de	ADV	_	14 better	advmod
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 er	amod
15	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hire	obl
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 er	appos
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 um	det
19	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	appos
21	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 um	flat
22	eh	eh	ADP	_	23 power	case
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bless	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 bless	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bless	punct
27	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 hire	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 bless	obj
29	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bless	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 fail	punct
31	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fail	compound
32	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bless	obl
33	too	too	ADV	_	27 bless	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Rabbit	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Rabbit	det
36	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Rabbit	compound
37	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bless	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 go	punct
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
40	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	5 hire	conj
41	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 go	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hire	present	Buh	fuh wuk plan	edder people	better er obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary plan=Theme
2	bless	infinitive		you		dem fail obl; soul obj; a Buh Rabbit parataxis	tree rules
3	go	present	um			clear property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 115

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 115