Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 132

Wen dem all bin gedder, Buh Rabbit enter dist es careful, an tek eh stan jes by de do.

Who acts: Buh, tek eh · What happens: bin, enter, stan, do · To what, where: Wen dem, dist es, jes

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, tek eh), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dem	compound
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bin	advmod
4	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gedder	gedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Buh	punct
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 enter	nsubj
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	conj
10	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 es	compound
11	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 enter	obj
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 enter	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stan	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
15	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	compound
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stan	nsubj
17	stan	stan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	parataxis
18	jes	j	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stan	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 de	case
20	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stan	obl
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stan	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin	present		Wen dem	gedder obj	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gedder=Theme
2	enter	present	Buh	dist es	careful property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme e=Destination
3	stan	present	a tek eh	jes	by de	tree rules
4	do	present	a tek eh not said here			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 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 132