Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 130

Buh Wolf, him bin er lay out on er bench een de middle er him house, kibber ober wid er wite clorte, an eh wife an eh chillun duh tan roun um duh cry.

Who acts: Buh, tan roun um · What happens: lay out, wite, cry · To what, where: er bench, clorte

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, tan roun 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	7 lay	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buh	nmod
5	bin	bin	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	aux
6	er	er	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 lay	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bench	case
10	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bench	amod
11	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bench	flat
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 middle	advmod
14	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 er	amod
15	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 wid	advmod
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 er	obj
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wid	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ober	punct
19	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ober	compound
20	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	conj
21	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lay	conj
22	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 wite	advmod
23	wite	wite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wid	xcomp
24	clorte	clorte	X	Foreign=Yes	23 wite	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wife	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wife	det
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wife	amod
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	parataxis
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chillun	det
30	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chillun	amod
31	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	conj
32	duh	duh	INTJ	_	35 um	discourse
33	tan	tan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 um	amod
34	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chillun	appos
36	duh	duh	INTJ	_	37 cry	discourse
37	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 um	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay out	present	Buh dem		er bench	a eh wife and a eh chillun parataxis	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bench=Destination
2	wite	infinitive	Buh dem not said here	clorte			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	tan roun um not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 130

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 130