Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 24

Buh Fox bin tink say de Ole Man gwine pity um, an tek um een eh waggin same luk eh done Buh Rabbit.

Who acts: Buh Fox bin, waggin, same luk eh · What happens: say, eh, do · To what, where: de, Buh Rabbit · 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 (Buh Fox bin, waggin, same luk eh), 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bin	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	compound
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	tink	tink	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	obj
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 um	amod
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gwine	compound
9	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pity	compound
10	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 um	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 um	det
14	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 um	compound
15	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	appos
16	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 um	flat
17	eh	eh	ADV	_	21 eh	advmod
18	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eh	nsubj
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eh	amod
20	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eh	compound
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 eh	acl
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Rabbit	compound
24	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 done	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh Fox bin	de	Ole pity um obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent de=Theme um=Manner
2	eh		waggin			tree rules
3	do	participle	same luk eh not said here	Buh Rabbit		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 24