Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 136

All dis time Buh Wolf bin er leddown, tretch out ter eh full lenk, and stiff lucker eh bin dead fuh true.

Who acts: dis time · What happens: bin, tretch out · To what, where: leddown, ter

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 (dis time), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det
2	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	nsubj
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 time	appos
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 leddown	advmod
8	leddown	leddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tretch	punct
10	tretch	tretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bin	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 tretch	compound:prt
12	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tretch	obj
13	eh	eh	ADV	_	15 lenk	advmod
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lenk	amod
15	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ter	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dead	cc
18	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lucker	amod
19	lucker	lucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	nsubj
20	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bin	det
21	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	nsubj
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bin	parataxis
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	24 true	discourse
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dead	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	all dis time	leddown					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leddown=Theme
2	tretch out	infinitive	all dis time not said here	ter full lenk					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 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 136