Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 133

Dem wait leely wile fuh Buh Fox, but him sen wud say him wife hab feber an him couldnt leff um.

Who acts: Dem · What happens: wait, wile, say, um · To what, where: Buh Fox, sen · 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 (Dem), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wait	nsubj
2	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leely	leely	ADV	_	4 wile	advmod
4	wile	wile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wait	advcl
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 Fox	discourse
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fox	compound
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wile	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
11	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
12	wud	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wait	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	obj
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hab	compound
16	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feber	compound
17	feber	feber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 um	det
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 um	nsubj
20	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
21	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive	Dem			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wile	infinitive	Dem not said here	Buh Fox	leely property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	would	dem	sen	hab feber obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme feber=Manner
4	um		dem			tree rules

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 133

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 133