Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 20

De nex day Buh Fox tek eh stan sider de big road an wait fuh de Ole Man an eh waggin.

What happens: wait · To what, where: day Buh tek

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: 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	3 day	advmod
2	nex	nex	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tek	compound
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tek	compound
5	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl
7	eh	eh	ADP	_	9 sider	case
8	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sider	compound
9	sider	sider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tek	nmod
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 road	compound
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 road	amod
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	compound
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wait	det
14	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obj
16	de	de	ADP	_	18 Man	case
17	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Man	amod
18	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 waggin	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 waggin	amod
21	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present		day Buh tek eh stan sider				de Ole Man; a eh waggin obl:unmarked; de big road compound; fuh obj	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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 20