Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 138

Wen de preachin an de singin done ober, dem all gone up fuh tek dem las look at Buh Wolf befo dem tote um out fuh bury um.

Who acts: Wen preachin, fuh dem las · What happens: do, go up, look out, bury · To what, where: Buh Wolf, um

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 (Wen preachin, fuh dem las), 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	3 preachin	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	preachin	preachin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 singin	det
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 singin	compound
6	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ober	amod
8	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singin	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dem	punct
10	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singin	conj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 gone	compound:prt
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 las	amod
15	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dem	compound
16	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 las	compound
17	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 look	nsubj
18	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 Wolf	case
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Wolf	compound
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
22	befo	befo	ADP	_	25 um	case
23	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tote	compound
24	tote	tote	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 um	compound
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
26	out	out	ADP	_	18 look	compound:prt
27	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	28 bury	discourse
28	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 look	conj
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bury	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	participle					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go up	participle	Wen preachin			a de singin and done ober and dem nsubj; all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	look out	present	fuh dem las		Buh Wolf	befo tote um	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	bury	infinitive	fuh dem las not said here	um			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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 138

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 138