Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 143

But wen eh fine Buh Rabbit sorter skittish, an eh duh ease ehself off, eh tek de chance, an, all ober sutten, eh trow ehself offer de bench an eh mek arter Buh Rabbit.

Who acts: wen chance · What happens: trow, offer · To what, where: ehself

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 chance), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 chance	cc
2	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chance	compound
3	eh	eh	ADV	_	4 fine	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wen	amod
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sorter	compound
6	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorter	compound
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
8	skittish	skittish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ease	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ease	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ease	amod
12	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ease	amod
13	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wen	conj
14	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 off	nsubj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 ease	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tek	punct
17	eh	eh	INTJ	_	18 tek	discourse
18	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wen	conj
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 tek	flat:foreign
20	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trow	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sutten	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sutten	det
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sutten	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sutten	det
25	ober	ober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sutten	amod
26	sutten	sutten	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chance	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chance	punct
28	eh	eh	INTJ	_	29 trow	discourse
29	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trow	obj
31	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 trow	xcomp
32	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 offer	xcomp
33	bench	bench	ADP	_	37 arter	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 arter	det
35	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 arter	amod
36	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 arter	compound
37	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 de	obl
38	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 arter	appos
39	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Buh	flat
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 trow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trow	infinitive	wen chance and a ober sutten	ehself					tree rules
2	offer	infinitive	wen chance and a ober sutten not said here					de property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 143

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 143