Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 55

Buh Rabbit run, but de Dog push um so tight Buh Rabbit, fuh sabe ehself, jump een one holler oak tree.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: run, push, sabe, jump · To what, where: um, ehself, een oak tree

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), 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 run	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 push	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 push	cc
6	de	de	ADP	_	7 Dog	case
7	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 push	obl
8	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	parataxis
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 push	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 tight	advmod
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Rabbit	amod
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 push	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sabe	punct
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 sabe	discourse
16	sabe	sabe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 push	parataxis
17	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sabe	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jump	punct
19	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 sabe	conj
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 tree	nummod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 oak	nummod
22	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 oak	compound
23	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jump	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	present	Buh			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	present		um	de Dog; tight Buh Rabbit obj	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent um=Theme rabbit=Destination
3	sabe	infinitive		ehself		tree rules
4	jump	infinitive		een oak tree		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 55