Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 57

Bimeby eh yeddy de Dog call one goose, an tell um fuh watch de holler tel him kin git some fire an moss fuh smoke Buh Rabbit outer de tree.

Who acts: Bimeby, um fuh, de holler tel · What happens: call, tell, watch, kin · To what, where: one goose, git · 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 (Bimeby, um fuh, de holler tel), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
2	eh	eh	X	_	3 yeddy	compound
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	appos
4	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	flat
5	Dog	Dog	PROPN	_	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 goose	nummod
8	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tell	det
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	advcl
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fuh	compound
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watch	nsubj
14	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 tel	compound
16	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tel	compound
17	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kin	nsubj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kin	nsubj
19	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watch	ccomp
20	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kin	obj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kin	obj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 smoke	det
24	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoke	compound
25	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 smoke	amod
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kin	obj
27	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 smoke	appos
28	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Buh	flat
29	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tree	amod
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 tree	compound
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Buh	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	infinitive	Bimeby		one goose	Dog nsubj	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goose=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	present	Bimeby not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	watch	present	um fuh				tree rules
4	kin	past	de holler tel	git		DOG nsubj; some fire obj; a moss fuh smoke obj	tree 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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 57