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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 51

Arter dat time wen Buh Rabbit bin play dat trick on Buh Wolf an ride um up ter de Gal house wuh dem all two bin er cote, Buh Wolf berry bex long Buh Rabbit, an eh wan ketch um fuh gie um good lickin.

Who acts: Buh, dem, eh wan ketch um · What happens: bin up, cote, rabbit, gie · To what, where: play dat trick, Buh Wolf, um

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, dem, eh wan ketch um), 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

compoundcompoundcompoundnmod:descnsubjflatcompoundcompoundobjcasecompoundnmoddetcompoundobjcompound:prtparataxiscasecompoundnmoddiscoursensubjadvmodnummodcompoundamodconjpunctnsubjflatcompoundnsubjamodcompoundconjpunctdetamodamodcompoundapposdiscourseaclobjamodconjpunctrootArterPROPNdatNOUNtimeNOUNwenNOUNBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNbinVERBplayNOUNdatNOUNtrickNOUNonADPBuhPROPNWolfPROPNanDETrideNOUNumNOUNupADPterNOUNdeADPGalPROPNhouseNOUNwuhINTJdemNOUNallADVtwoNUMbinNOUNerADJcoteNOUN,PUNCTBuhPROPNWolfPROPNberryNOUNbexNOUNlongADJBuhPROPNRabbitNOUN,PUNCTanDETehADJwanADJketchNOUNumNOUNfuhINTJgieVERBumNOUNgoodADJlickinNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ArterArterPROPNNumber=Sing4 wencompound
2datdatNOUNNumber=Sing3 timecompound
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing4 wencompound
4wenwenNOUNNumber=Sing5 Buhnmod:desc
5BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing7 binnsubj
6RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing5 Buhflat
7binbinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8playplayNOUNNumber=Sing10 trickcompound
9datdatNOUNNumber=Sing10 trickcompound
10tricktrickNOUNNumber=Sing7 binobj
11ononADP_13 Wolfcase
12BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing13 Wolfcompound
13WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing10 tricknmod
14anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 umdet
15riderideNOUNNumber=Sing16 umcompound
16umumNOUNNumber=Sing7 binobj
17upupADP_7 bincompound:prt
18terterNOUNNumber=Sing7 binparataxis
19dedeADP_21 housecase
20GalGalPROPNNumber=Sing21 housecompound
21househouseNOUNNumber=Sing18 ternmod
22wuhwuhINTJ_28 cotediscourse
23demdemNOUNNumber=Sing28 cotensubj
24allallADV_25 twoadvmod
25twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card26 binnummod
26binbinNOUNNumber=Sing28 cotecompound
27ereADJDegree=Cmp28 coteamod
28cotecoteNOUNNumber=Sing18 terconj
29,,PUNCT_36 Rabbitpunct
30BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing36 Rabbitnsubj
31WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing30 Buhflat
32berryberryNOUNNumber=Sing33 bexcompound
33bexbexNOUNNumber=Sing36 Rabbitnsubj
34longlongADJDegree=Pos36 Rabbitamod
35BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing36 Rabbitcompound
36RabbitrabbitNOUNNumber=Sing28 coteconj
37,,PUNCT_42 umpunct
38anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 umdet
39ehehADJDegree=Pos42 umamod
40wanwanADJDegree=Pos42 umamod
41ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing42 umcompound
42umumNOUNNumber=Sing28 coteappos
43fuhfuhINTJ_44 giediscourse
44giegieVERBVerbForm=Inf42 umacl
45umumNOUNNumber=Sing44 gieobj
46goodgoodADJDegree=Pos47 lickinamod
47lickinlickinNOUNNumber=Sing45 umconj
48..PUNCT_7 binpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bin uppresentBuh Arter time wenplay dat trickBuh Wolfa ride um obj; ter de Gal house and bin er cote and long Buh Rabbit parataxistree rules
2cotedema eh wan ketch um appostree rules
3rabbitBuhberry bex nsubjtree rules
4gieinfinitivea eh wan ketch um not said hereum and good lickintree 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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