Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 56

De hole bin too leely fuh de Dog fuh foller um, an so Buh Rabbit mek ehself saterfy say eh done git way.

Who acts: hole bin · What happens: say, do · To what, where: git way · 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 (hole bin), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hole	compound
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	compound
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 fuh	advmod
5	leely	leely	ADV	_	6 fuh	advmod
6	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bin	amod
7	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Dog	compound
8	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fuh	obl
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	11 um	discourse
10	foller	foller	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Dog	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saterfy	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 saterfy	det
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 saterfy	mark
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Rabbit	compound
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 saterfy	compound
17	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Rabbit	flat
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 Rabbit	flat
19	saterfy	saterfy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	conj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	eh	eh	ADV	_	22 done	advmod
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 say	ccomp
23	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 way	compound
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	hole bin and a Rabbit saterfy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	participle		git way					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 56