Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 15

Arter Buh Rabbit done gedder de fish wuh eh bin tief outer de Ole Man waggin, eh pit um on tring, an eh start fuh tote um ter him house.

Who acts: eh start · What happens: do, um · To what, where: tief outer waggin house

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 (eh start), 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	Arter	Arter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbit	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Arter	flat
3	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gedder	compound
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gedder	amod
5	gedder	gedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 gedder	flat:foreign
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 house	nsubj
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	32 house	discourse
9	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bin	det
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	nsubj
11	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 house	amod
12	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 house	amod
13	de	de	ADP	_	16 waggin	case
14	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 waggin	amod
15	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waggin	compound
16	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	compound
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 um	punct
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 um	amod
19	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waggin	appos
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 tring	case
22	tring	tring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 um	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 start	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 start	amod
26	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	nsubj
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 um	amod
28	tote	tote	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waggin	appos
30	ter	ter	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 um	nmod
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 house	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	um		a eh start					ter fish	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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 15