Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 142

Es eh come fuh look topper Buh Wolf, Buh Wolf bin spec say eh woulder tan so close dat eh coulder graff um.

Who acts: Es, Buh, spec · What happens: come, look, bin, say · To what, where: woulder tan · 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 (Es, Buh, spec), 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	Es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	5 look	discourse
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	xcomp
6	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	nmod:desc
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bin	nsubj
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Buh	punct
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	conj
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	parataxis
13	spec	spec	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bin	ccomp
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	17 tan	discourse
16	woulder	woulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tan	compound
17	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 close	advmod
19	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tan	amod
20	dat	dat	ADP	_	24 um	case
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coulder	compound
22	coulder	coulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	compound
23	graff	graff	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	compound
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	Es		eh nsubj	tree rules
2	look	infinitive	Es not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	bin	present	Buh topper and Buh			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	spec	woulder tan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tan=Topic

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 142

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 142