Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 52

Buh Rabbit, him so smate eh keep outer Buh Wolf way so eh couldnt come pon topper um.

Who acts: Rabbit, eh couldnt · What happens: keep, come · To what, where: outer Wolf way, pon

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 (Rabbit, eh couldnt), 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	INTJ	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Rabbit	conj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
6	smate	smate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eh	amod
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wolf	compound
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 way	compound
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 couldnt	amod
15	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	advcl
17	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obj
18	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	compound
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pon	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Rabbit um	outer Wolf way				smate eh nsubj	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	come	present	eh couldnt	pon					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pon=Theme

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 52